Hong Kong. September 15. INTERFAX - During a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea Jong Yong promised that Seoul will continue to make efforts aimed at ensuring peace with the DPRK, and expressed hope that these efforts will be supported by Beijing, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
"We expect China to consistently support our government's peace process on the Korean peninsula," he told Wang Yi at the start of the talks.
He called China a "key partner" in achieving the common goal of establishing lasting peace on the Korean peninsula.
Chong Yoo-yong wished China a successful holding of the 2022 Winter Olympics, which is safe from an epidemiological point of view and peaceful.
According to media reports, Wang Yi, for his part, called on South Korea to work together to strengthen the "sense of community" in the face of serious changes in the international situation, calling the two countries "partners who cannot part."
"China and South Korea are close neighbors who cannot change their location, and partners who cannot part with each other," he said.
Wang Yi added that the two countries should ensure the" better, faster, stable, full-fledged and sustainable " development of bilateral relations by further strengthening the sense of community, expanding common interests and finding potential for cooperation.
