Chinese Premier Attends the Sixth Trilateral Leaders’ Meeting of China, Japan and the ROK

The Korean capital, Seoul, played host to the Sixth Trilateral Leaders’ Meeting of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on November 1. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, President Park Geunhye of the ROK, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan attended the meeting.

Premier Li put forward specific proposals on China-JapanROK cooperation: to enhance political mutual trust and safeguard regional peace and stability; to give full play to respective comparative advantages and carry out international production capacity cooperation; to facilitate East Asian economic integration and safeguard regional financial stability; to promote structural reform and facilitate innovation cooperation together; to beef up cooperation on sustainable development and better benefit people; and to step up social, peopleto-people and cultural exchanges and to enhance the sense of East Asian community.

President Park said that enhancing cooperation is not only in line with the interests of all three nations’ peoples but also conducive to stability and prosperity in Northeast Asia.

Prime Minister Abe welcomed resumption of the mechanism of the trilateral leaders’ meeting and said that the Japanese side adhered to the position of previous cabinets on historical issues and persisted in peaceful development.

After the meeting, the three countries issued the Joint Declaration on Peace and Cooperation in Northeast Asia.