Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that China supports the development of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) with practical actions, calling on the ARF to further promote regional dialogue and cooperation.
Wang made the remakes when attending the 23th ARF Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in the Lao capital Vientiane.
He said China always attaches the great importance to the role of the ARF and actively participates in the dialogue and cooperation under the ARF framework.
According to Wang, China has operated more than 40 cooperation projects since the founding of the ARF. The projects operated by China each year accounted for one third of the total sum of the ARF projects, which is ranked the top among all ARF members.
China believes that the ARF should adopt the principle of building trust throughout its whole process and explore precautionary diplomatic models step by step based on consensus, Wang said.
All parties of the ARF should further enhance dialogue and cooperation so as to increase mutual understanding and trust among countries in the region, he said.
With a generally stable situation, Asia-Pacific region has gained more important role in the global situation, Wang said, however, the region also faces terrorism, natural disasters, transnational crimes and other forms of nontraditional security threats.
China is willing to promote the ARF to make more contribution to regional peace and stability by more dialogue and cooperation with all parties under the ARF, Wang said.
