(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): China urged Afghanistan, Nepal, and Pakistan on Monday to forge four-party cooperation to resolve the Covid-19 crisis and start work on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects like the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, presiding over a virtual meeting with his three-country counterparts said the four states would work together to expand CPEC to Afghanistan.
Wang said on Monday night the four states would give full play to geographical advantages, improve ties and linkages between the four countries and Central Asian countries, and sustain regional peace and stability.
Wang said that learning from the Sino-Pakistan cooperation, Afghanistan and Nepal would extend the four-nation joint prevention and control of Covid-19 and plan for prevention of epidemics, resumption of economic activity, and exchange of staff. They should also improve joint protection and control in border regions, and frame jointly recognized standard operating procedures for a warning, detection, monitoring, and control of epidemics, he added.
The other countries will strongly support the joint building of BRI as part of post-pandemic recovery and economic progress, support the resumption of key cooperation ventures, preserve the stabilization of manufacturing and supply chains and establish new economic growth points in the digital sector.
The online meeting was accompanied by the foreign and economic ministers of Pakistan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Khushro Bakhtiar, the foreign minister of Nepal, Pradeep Gyawali, and the acting foreign minister of Afghanistan, Hanif Atmar.
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