‘Pakistan, China to support each other on core issues’

ISLAMABAD: The 8th round of China-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue held here between Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou and Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua further strengthened consultation process between the two countries for taking unanimous position on core issues of their mutual interest.
During the talks, Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou said that China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic cooperative partners and we have always lent support to each other when it comes to issues of respective core interests.
China always makes Pakistan a priority in its neighborhood diplomacy, and China's development should first benefit a good friend that shares weal and woe like Pakistan.
China wishes to develop China-Pakistan relations with a strategic vision and from a long-term perspective and work with Pakistan to move forward the bilateral relations and proactively build the China-Pakistan community of shared future.
Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua said that China-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue serves as an important channel for the two countries to enhance strategic communication and coordination. Pakistan stands ready to make the most of this mechanism and move forward the communication and cooperation as well as strategic coordination between the two countries.
In this round of dialogue, both sides spoke highly of the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership and expressed that the two countries will continue to well implement consensus reached by leaders of both countries, enhance friendly exchanges at various levels, actively facilitate the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, deepen practical cooperation in various areas.