Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Holds Talks with His Turkish Counterpart Davutoglu
2010-11-02 08:22

On November 2, 2010, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held talks with his visiting Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Beijing.

Yang made positive comments on the sound momentum of all-round development of bilateral ties and appreciated Turkey's positions of adhering to the one-China policy and enhancing cooperation with China on issues concerning China's sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security. He hailed close high-level exchanges, enhanced political trust, fruitful pragmatic cooperation, increasing highlights of humanities cooperation and coordination in international and regional affairs between the two countries. Premier Wen's recent successful visit to Turkey has pushed bilateral ties into a new stage of rapid development. China is ready to work with Turkey to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of both countries, enrich the connotations of China-Turkey strategic cooperation and advance pragmatic cooperation in politics, economy, security, culture and people-to-people exchanges in an all-around way for the benefit of both peoples, Yang said.

Davutoglu said that Turkey respects China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity. The Turkish side values the development and expansion of the China-Turkey strategic cooperation, and is willing to make joint efforts with the Chinese side to boost bilateral ties, Davutoglu said.

The two sides also exchanged in-depth views on international and regional issues of common concern.

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