Nations ‘must be highly vigilant and resolutely oppose inciting and creating a so-called new cold war’, he says at CICA forum‘To strengthen and improve global governance, major powers must play an exemplary role,’ he tells UN meeting

Countries of the world must work together on the basis of justice and fairness to prevent a new cold war, and major powers should show the way, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday in separate addresses to an Asian forum and the United Nations.

At a virtual meeting of foreign ministers from the member nations of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Wang said the world was facing an array of new challenges.

“Under the current international situation, tension and opposition have risen significantly,” he said.

“We must be highly vigilant and resolutely oppose inciting and creating a so-called new cold war.”

China would work with other Asian countries “to forge a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, fairness, justice and mutually beneficial cooperation”, he said.Earlier in the day, Wang spoke at a UN Security Council ministerial meeting – held in the form of a videoconference on the sidelines of the 75th General Assembly, where China once again came under fire from the United States.US ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft accused Beijing of concealing the origins of the coronavirus and said its decisions in the early days of the epidemic had cost the world hundreds of thousands of lives.

In his remarks, Wang appealed to the world’s larger nations to “put down cold war thinking and ideological bias”.

Wang also stressed the need to maintain global order, and for countries to respect the principles of sovereignty, non-interference and peaceful settlement of disputes in accordance with international law.

“To strengthen and improve global governance, major powers must play an exemplary role, take the lead in implementing the United Nations charter in providing global public goods and contributing to world peace and development,” he said.

“At a time when the world is facing major risks and challenges, the major powers must make the future and destiny of mankind their priority.”https://www.youtube.com/embed/KptiI_MZRyY

The CICA conference was also marked by a heated exchange between the representatives of India and Pakistan.Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Mahmood Qureshi slammed the “atrocities by Indian occupation forces in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir”.

Delhi responded with a statement saying Pakistan had misused the CICA forum, and called it a “global epicentre of terrorism”.But Qureshi praised collaboration between Islamabad and Beijing on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Source south china morning post