Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to attend a signing ceremony in Hong Kong on Friday morning to mark the establishment of the world’s first intergovernmental legal body focused on mediation. Police have deployed about 100 officers, including some from their counterterrorism unit, for the event. High-level representatives from nearly 60 countries and about…
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday, a day before a signing ceremony for the establishment of an intergovernmental mediation body in the city. Wang arrived on board flight CX973 from Xiamen at 1.34pm, with Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu due to welcome him at a dinner in the evening, the…
The peaceful settlement of international disputes is a fundamental principle of international law and relations. Both the UN Charter (Article 33) and the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States adopted alongside in 1970 set out mediation as one of the means to settle international disputes. In the 2012…
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi will arrive in Hong Kong on Thursday afternoon and meet the city’s leader ahead of a ceremony for the establishment of an intergovernmental mediation organisation in the financial hub, the Post has learned. A source familiar with the itinerary said on Wednesday that Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu would greet…
China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, will visit Hong Kong next Friday to attend a ceremony linked to a mediation organisation established in the city with Beijing’s backing. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that Wang would attend the signing ceremony of the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation…
China on Sunday backed its close ally Pakistan in safeguarding its sovereignty and security interests, with foreign minister Wang Yi calling on New Delhi and Islamabad to exercise restrain in the aftermath of the terror attack in Pahalgam. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. (Reuters) During a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar, Wang…
New Delhi: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Sunday said his country is closely following the situation between India and Pakistan, China’s state media Global Times said in a report. Wang told Mr Dar that China supports an impartial investigation into the terror attack…
Three large steel structures in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea have raised tensions between China and South Korea and prompted comparisons to Beijing’s island-building programme in the South China Sea. Beijing insists the three structures in the waters where the two countries’ claims to an exclusive economic zone overlap are being run by…
BEIJING: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Tuesday urged Britain and the EU to safeguard multilateral trading systems, as Beijing seeks to rally support from trading partners to counter US tariff measures. Wang told British foreign secretary David Lammy in a phone call that China and Britain had a responsibility to uphold international order in…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Global South nations that “unilateral bullying” was hurting a rules-based world, as Beijing kept up the diplomatic pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump to roll back his punitive trade tariffs. Power politics and unilateral bullying were undermining international rules and creating divisions and confrontations, Wang told…