13-7-2023 (JAKARTA) During a meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi pledged that China is ready to foster new cooperation highlights and promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation with Indonesia. Wang noted that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, and bilateral relations have shown broad prospects for development.
Wang expressed China’s readiness to work with Indonesia to make preparations for the next stage of high-level exchanges. Additionally, he vowed to promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation together with Indonesia and foster more new cooperation highlights in green development, digital economy, food security, poverty reduction, and poverty alleviation.
The Director highlighted the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) as a major landmark project under the Belt and Road Initiative, carrying the aspirations of the Indonesian people for a better life. He believes that the HSR will be completed and opened to traffic on schedule with the joint efforts of both sides and play its due role in Indonesia’s economic and social development.
This year also marks the 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, and Wang noted that China will continue to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-centered and effective regional cooperation architecture. He also expressed China’s support for ASEAN in playing a more prominent role in international and regional affairs.
As the ASEAN chair, Marsudi thanked China for supporting Indonesia’s hosting of multilateral events and emphasised her country’s high expectations for high-level exchanges between the two sides in the future. She pledged to promote the deepening of ASEAN-China cooperation during Indonesia’s tenure as the chair.
Wang is set to attend the ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, the ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta from Thursday to Friday.
