South Korea, China And Japan Summit At Cheong Wa Dae Endeavors ‘To Achieve Regional Peace And Stability,’ Says South Korean President Park Geun Hye
Leaders from South Korea, China and Japan met on Sunday not to discuss controversial issues, but to re-establish regional cooperation. The trilateral meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae was the first ceremonial summit after more than three years.
"In the spirit of facing history squarely and advancing towards the future, we agreed to make efforts to achieve regional peace and stability," said President Park Geun Hye, as noted by The Chosunilbo Monday.
Park met with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the trilateral meeting. According to Park, the cooperation between the three countries was "fully restored."
In addition, the South Korean president also revealed that the three leaders will meet again frequently, adding that the next trilateral summit will be hosted by Japan next year.
"The normalization of the trilateral cooperative system is a big step toward peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia," she said.
Meanwhile, Chinese Prime Minster Li said there was a three-way agreement to accurately talk about the history and other insightful matters to gain mutual trust, as reported by Yonhap News Agency Sunday.
Aside from that, the three leaders reportedly pledged to deal the issue of North Korean nuclear immediately.
"We decided to continue joint efforts to resume meaningful six-party talks to make substantial progress in the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," the South Korean president said.
Park, Li And Abe also reached an agreement to build up cooperation on e-commerce and to create a consultative committee to discover joint measures.
The three leaders also pledged to assist on the implementation of a legally obligatory agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will happen this month in France.
A joint statement released after the meeting said that the trilateral summit contributes in attaining peace, stability and prosperity.
"We reached the common recognition that the situation in which economic interdependence and political/security tensions coexist must be overcome in order to build permanent peace, stability and co-prosperity in the region, and to continue to develop trilateral cooperation unwaveringly," the joint statement said.
"To this end, we came to the recognition that respective bilateral ties among the three countries constitute an important foundation for trilateral cooperation, and that the deepening of trilateral cooperation, in turn, contributes to each bilateral relations and to the peace, stability, and prosperity of the Northeast Asian region."
