(18 Oct 2024)
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Beijing, China – 18 October 2024
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1. Wide of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) and UK Foreign Minister, David Lammy (left) shaking hands and walking into conference room
2. Wide of meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister:
“We hope to follow the consensus of the leaders of the two countries as a guide, respect each other’s concerns, deepen strategic communication, build a long-term and stable policy framework, restart our various dialogue and cooperation mechanisms, and deepen exchanges and cooperation in areas such as trade, finance, green development, science and technology, public health, education, and humanities, persist in keeping mutual benefit and win-win situation as the main tone, and push the China – UK relations into a new stage of stable development.”
4. Wide of meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister:
“The world is now facing unprecedented challenges, and competition between major countries should not become the backdrop of the era. You’ve put forward the concept of progressive realism, which we think has positive meaning. China is willing to work with all countries, including the UK, to seek peace for the world and pursue development for the mankind.”
6. Mid of UK officials
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Lammy, UK Foreign Secretary:
“The UK will always put its national interests and national security first. And I’m struck by the scope for mutually beneficial cooperation on climate, on energy and nature, on science and tech, on trade and investment, on health and development. There are of course areas where we have different perspectives. I hope we can find space to discuss such areas constructively.”
8. Wide of meeting
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Lammy, UK Foreign Secretary:
“The world is more volatile than it’s been for decades. Conflicts and crisis threaten all of us. Security, economics and politics have become increasingly intertangled. Neither us has an interest in escalation or greater instability.”
10. Wide of Chinese and UK national flags
STORYLINE:
China and the UK’s top diplomats called for greater cooperation in the face of challenges in a bilateral meeting in Beijing on Friday.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi Friday as Lammy makes his first visit by a Cabinet minister since the Labour government took control in July.
The two met in the Diaoyutai State Guest House and shook hands, before heading into a room for bilateral talks.
Lammy’s two-day trip is an attempt to reset ties with Beijing after relations turned frosty in recent years over spying allegations, China’s support for Russia in the Ukraine war and a crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong, a former British colony now part of China.
A Foreign Office news release said that Lammy would urge China to stop its political and economic support of the Russian war effort.
At the bilateral meeting when media was present, neither sides mentioned specific conflicts.
“The world is now facing unprecedented challenges, and competition between major countries should not become the backdrop of the era," Wang said.
"China is willing to work with all countries, including the UK, to seek peace for the world and pursue development for the mankind."
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