September 18, 2017

PANAMA CITY -- Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Sunday that the Belt and Road Initiative has become a new focus for cooperation between China and Latin America.

Wang made the remarks at a joint press conference with Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado, Panama's vice president and foreign minister, following their meeting.

China has always attached great importance to the development of its relationships with Latin American and Caribbean countries from a long-term and strategic perspective, he said.

"We hold a firm belief that the development of China and the development of Latin America present opportunities for each other. We observe an explicit principle of sticking to equality and mutual benefits between China and Latin America and focusing on common development. We have adopted a general guideline which is to jointly build a community of shared future for China and Latin America," Wang said.

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