Chinese vice premier meets Mozambican PM

Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang on Tuesday met with visiting Mozambican Prime Minister Maria Benvinda Delfina Levi, who is in Beijing for the Global Leaders' Meeting on Women.

Ding, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that China and Mozambique have enjoyed a long-standing traditional friendship and forged a partnership featuring mutual trust and firm support.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Mozambique. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Mozambican counterpart Daniel Chapo have exchanged congratulatory messages, charting the course for future development of bilateral relations, Ding said.

China stands ready to work with Mozambique to continuously strengthen political mutual trust and deepen practical cooperation across various fields within the frameworks of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), so as to elevate the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries to a new high, Ding said.

For her part, Levi said that Mozambique highly values the fraternal friendship with China and sincerely appreciates China's long-term and valuable support for Mozambique's national independence and socioeconomic development.

Mozambique is willing to further expand practical cooperation with China across all sectors, she said.

Chinese vice premier meets Mozambican PM

Chinese vice premier meets Mozambican PM

The multilateral system is "under attack" amid global turmoil, President of the 80th UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock warned in her remarks on Wednesday.

In her briefing on the priorities for the resumed 80th Session of the General Assembly, the UNGA president noted that the current multilateral system does not collapse all in a sudden, but "crumbles piece by piece" in divisions, compromises, and lack of political commitment.

The president called all the UN member states to defend the UN Charter and international law and promote cross-regional cooperation.

She also urged to push forward the work of the UNGA on certain critical issues with a strong majority, rather than an absolute consensus among all member states. Such act is not a failure of multilateralism, but "an affirmation of it," she said.

The foundational principles of the institution should not be eroded by appeasement, she said, calling the member states to show courage, leadership, and responsibility at the UN's "critical make-or-break moment."

"The UN needs you. Your support, your leadership, your principle, stand, your cross-regional cooperation, if we are to preserve and modernize this institution, if we are to make it, rather than break it," she said.

UNGA President warns global multilateral system "under attack"