The Beijing Xiangshan Forum Navigator Meeting concluded on Wednesday, providing a new platform for countries to coordinate and manage differences while reflecting China's active efforts to promote global security.
As a precursor to the main Beijing Xiangshan Forum, scheduled to be held in fall, the three-day meeting was the first of its kind and brought together over 200 defense officials, experts, scholars and media representatives from more than 30 countries and international organizations to discuss global security issues in preparation for the main forum later this year.
The navigator meeting hosted special seminars on a variety of topics such as BRICS cooperation mechanism and UN peacekeeping operations.
Since its inception in 2006, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum has successfully hosted eleven editions and has become a prominent international defense and security forum.
Participants said that the key to solving security issues is to face up to the complex historical reasons behind them, respect reasonable worries and concerns, balance the interests of all countries, achieve common goals, and reach a long-term and viable security mechanism.
Major General Muneer Ud Din, Director General of the Pakistani Foreign Military Cooperation Branch, highlighted the importance of the meeting, saying it allows everyone to sit together, listen and discuss each other's different views, especially as the world faces unprecedented geopolitical changes.
Chinese representatives also reiterated that China will firmly stand on the right side of history and on the side of human progress and respond to an uncertain world with China's certainty.
"This is the first time to hold the navigator meeting of the Beijing Xiangshan Forum. The name of the meeting is good. First of all, we need to make the first move and judge its trend. I think this navigator meeting is to gather various consensuses, not only from BRICS countries, but also from China and Western countries, to see their views. Then, it is to predict future security development trends, to find ideas and solutions for security solutions," said Wang Yiwei, Vice President of the Academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at Renmin University of China.
Beijing Xiangshan Forum Navigator Meeting concludes, advancing global security dialogue and cooperation
