(29 Oct 2024)
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Beijing – 29 October 2024
1. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Finnish President Alexander Stubb walking onto stage
2. Wide of Xi and Stubb
3. Pan of welcoming ceremony
4. Close of honour guards
5. Wide of Xi and Stubb
6. Wide of honour guards
7. Various of Xi and Stubb inspecting honour guards
8. National flags of China and Finland
9. Various of bilateral meeting
10. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, President of China:
“I am willing to work together with you to guide both countries in strengthening strategic cooperation, carrying forward our tradition of friendship and making further progress on a future-facing new model of cooperative relations.”
11. Stubb listening
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexander Stubb, President of Finland:
“I really look forward to our open, frank, direct conversation. You mentioned that we have a long distance, but we do have a common neighbour in the form of Russia. We have 1,340 kilometers of border with Russia. You have 5-6,000, something to that effect. And right now we are very much in a situation whereby Russian aggression has violated international law. I look forward to discussing peaceful solutions on that path as well.”
13. Wide of Finnish officials at bilateral meeting
14. Wide of signing ceremony
15. Various of officials signing agreements, shaking hands
16. Xi and Stubb shaking hands
STORYLINE:
Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted visiting Finnish President Alexander Stubb at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.
The two leaders had previously met 14 years ago, Xi noted in his welcome remarks to Stubb, when Stubb was the Foreign Minister in Finland and Xi was vice president in China.
“I am willing to work together with you to guide both countries in strengthening strategic cooperation, carrying forward our tradition of friendship and making further progress on a future-facing new model of cooperative relations,” said Xi.
Finland is one of the most active European providers of military and civilian aid to Ukraine and joined NATO last year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
China on the other hand, has been criticised by the U.S., and NATO for its support of Russia. Specifically, the U.S. and NATO have called China an enabler of the war.
“Right now we are very much in a situation whereby Russian aggression has violated international law. I look forward to discussing peaceful solutions on that path as well,” Stubb told Xi during the meeting.
This is Stubb’s first trip to China since becoming president in March.
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