China and five Central Asian countries agreed on Wednesday to push forward the high-quality development of Belt and Road cooperation, strengthen their joint fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, promote regional security and stability and uphold multilateralism as their foreign ministers met in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.
They also expressed their willingness to enhance strategic mutual trust, respect each other’s development path and firmly support each other on issues concerning core interests, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters after the second China + Central Asia foreign ministers meeting.
The meeting was the first face-to-face one under this mechanism since the first meeting of the foreign ministers of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan was held via video link in July.
Given the current pandemic situation, it showed the six countries’ confidence in jointly combating the virus and their resolve to strengthen unity and coordination, Wang said.