Wang Yi Talks about the Three-point Consensus Reached at the Coordinators' Meeting on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation

On August 18, 2022, in his concluding remarks at the Coordinators' Meeting on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi remarked that all parties had a thorough exchange of views on ways to fully implement the follow-up actions of the Eighth FOCAC Ministerial Conference and deepen China-Africa friendly and cooperative relations, and reached a three-point consensus:

First, both sides are committed to accelerating the building of a China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era, which has been included in the Dakar Declaration of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and has become a new banner of China-Africa friendship. Facing the increasingly complex and volatile international situation and the unabated COVID-19 pandemic, China and Africa will further strengthen mutual support and trust, firmly defend each other's core interests and major concerns, safeguard respective sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, and work to build China-Africa relations into a fine example of solidarity, friendship and mutual assistance.

Second, both sides are committed to strengthening solidarity and cooperation among developing countries. Wang quoted what President Xi Jinping wrote in his reply letter to Senegalese President and rotating chairperson of the African Union (AU) Macky Sall as saying that "Our world today is living through drastic changes unseen in a century, the global governance system is facing profound adjustment, and the representation and say of developing countries need to be enhanced". China supports the AU in joining the Group of Twenty, and will honor its words with actions. It will coordinate closely with African countries to firmly safeguard the common interests of developing countries, work for a more fair, reasonable and balanced global governance system, and contribute more positive energy to world peace and development.

Third, both sides are committed to constantly boosting the well-established credentials of FOCAC, which has become an important platform for China and Africa to achieve development and prosperity together. The two sides will fully implement the follow-up actions of the Eighth FOCAC Ministerial Conference such as the "nine programs", and synergize high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Africa and the efforts to advance the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative with the AU's Agenda 2063, the African Continental Free Trade Area and national development strategies of African countries, so as to achieve more tangible results and better benefit the Chinese and African people.