BEIJING: China on Thursday said that it supported Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations, urging a certain UN Security Council member to stop laying obstacles to that end.
We demand a more broad-based, more effective, and more authoritative international peace conference to work out a timetable and road map for the two-state solution, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a media conference held on the margins of the second session of the 14th National People’s Congress.
Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, called the failure to end the humanitarian disaster caused by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict a tragedy for humanity and a disgrace for civilization.
He said that nothing justifies the prolonging of the conflict or the killing of the civilian population.
He added that the long occupation of the Palestinian territories is a fact that should not be ignored anymore and that the long-cherished aspiration of the Palestinian people for an independent state should not be evaded anymore.
More importantly, he further said, the historical injustice to the Palestinian people must not be allowed to continue uncorrected from generation to generation.
He said that restoring justice to the Palestinians and fully implementing the two-state solution was the only way to break the vicious cycle of Palestinian-Israeli hostilities, eradicate the breeding ground of extremist ideologies, and realize enduring peace in the region of the Middle East.
China Desires to Make BRI Lasting Opportunity for All
In response to a query about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), he said China wanted to make the Initiative a lasting opportunity shared by all and hoped that the high-standard Belt and Road cooperation would serve as an engine of the common development of all nations.
