Remarks With Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Before their Meeting
Remarks
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Beijing, China
September 4, 2012
FOREIGN MINISTER YANG:
(Via interpreter) Madam Secretary, on behalf of the Chinese Government,
a warm welcome on your visit to China. Madam Secretary, we place high
importance on your visit. Tomorrow, several Chinese leaders will have
meetings with you. In recent years, the China-U.S. relationship has
maintained stability and achieved development, and we have made
important progress in some areas.
Maintaining the healthy and
steady development of our relationship serves the fundamental interests
of our two countries and two peoples and is conducive to stability,
peace, and development in the Asia Pacific region and beyond. China
stands ready to work with the U.S. side, guided by the joint vision of
our two presidents to further push forward the China-U.S. cooperative
partnership based on mutual respect and mutual benefit and to explore a
new type of major country relationship.
This evening, I’d be happy
to exchange views with you on how to further push forward our bilateral
relationship and on some important international and regional issues.
Again, warm welcome to China.
SECRETARY CLINTON:
Well, Minister Yang, thank you for that warm welcome on behalf of my
delegation and myself. We are very pleased to be, once again, in China
to have this opportunity to exchange views. We are committed to building
a cooperative partnership with China; it is a key aspect of our
rebalancing in the Asia Pacific. And we have had a lot of in depth
consultations and high-level meetings over the last three and a half
years. Just this past year, we had the fourth session of our Strategic
and Economic Dialogue and a 12th meeting between our two
presidents. And we continue to stress the importance of the practical
cooperation that underlies our comprehensive relationship.
So
again, tonight we’ll have a chance to explore issues in our bilateral
relationship as well as regional and international matters that are of
importance. So thank you again for the warm welcome to this new foreign
ministry building.
- U.S
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) meets Chinese Foreign Minister
Yang Jieche in Beijing September 4, 2012. China warned the United States
not to get involved in South China Sea territorial disputes on Tuesday
as Clinton arrived in Beijing pledging to pass on a strong message on
the need to calm regional tension. REUTERS/Feng Li/Pool (CHINA - Tags:
POLITICS)
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