Wang Yi Meets with Special Envoy of UAE President to China Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak

Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Special Envoy of the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to China Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak in Abu Dhabi.

Wang Yi stated that China is a long-term strategic partner that the UAE can rely on and trust. The friendship and mutual trust between President Xi Jinping and President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan have provided the most important political guarantee for the development of China-UAE relations. Developing relations with the UAE is a manifestation of China’s consistent diplomatic commitment to treating all countries as equals regardless of their size and always standing together with fellow developing countries. China’s development and growth represent a boost to the force for world peace, a rise in the strength of the Global South, and an enhancement of the factors for world stability. Under the current international circumstances, China is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with the UAE, enhance strategic mutual trust, deliver on the important common understandings reached between the two heads of state, promote the advancement of cooperation across various fields between the two countries, and elevate the China-UAE comprehensive strategic partnership to a higher level.

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak said that China is an important strategic partner of the UAE, and the profound friendship between the two heads of state is a valuable asset for bilateral relations. Developing relations with China is a top priority of the UAE’s foreign policy. With full confidence in China’s future development, the UAE always views its relations with China from a long-term perspective and is willing to further enhance high-level exchanges with China, learn from China’s experience in governance, and build new bridges for cooperation in economy and trade, investment, energy, science and technology and other fields to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.