United Nations officials on Monday have called on all parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to earnestly implement the active ceasefire agreement as the country struggles to alleviate its serious humanitarian situation.
The UN Security Council on Monday held a meeting to review the DRC situation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Bintou Keita, Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC and Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the DRC said at the meeting that the current security environment, worsening climate change and multiple epidemics have exacerbated the humanitarian situation in the DRC, with nearly 6.4 million people currently displaced.
However, funding for the humanitarian response plan has improved significantly compared to last year, said Keita.
China's permanent representative to the United Nations Fu Cong said that the ceasefire agreement signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda is an important step to ease the situation in eastern Congo amid the humanitarian crisis.
Fu said China urges all armed groups to immediately cease fire and disarm, and calls on the international community to actively respond to security and humanitarian challenges.
UN Security Council calls for end to conflict in DR Congo
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam Bui Thanh Son in Beijing on Tuesday, with both sides pledging to promote the China-Vietnam community with a shared future.
Noting that China and Vietnam are comrades in the socialist cause and good partners on the path of reform, Han said General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam have made strategic plans for advancing the China-Vietnam community with a shared future, providing clear direction for the development of bilateral relations.
Noting that next year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the China-Vietnam Year of People-to-People Exchanges, Han said the two sides should follow the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, maintain strategic communication, expand practical cooperation, consolidate the foundation of public opinion, strengthen multilateral coordination and promote the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, bringing more benefits to the two peoples.
Bui Thanh Son said that developing long-term friendly relations with China is the consistent proposition, objective requirement, strategic choice and top priority of Vietnam's diplomacy.
Vietnam firmly adheres to the one-China policy and is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges, consolidate political mutual trust, deepen pragmatic cooperation with China, and jointly promote the building of a Vietnam-China community with a shared future with strategic significance, he added.
Chinese, Vietnamese officials pledge to promote China-Vietnam community with shared future
