SIERRA LEONE, Freetown – The Chinese Embassy hosted its third session of Information Salon for this year at the China House, Freetown on Wednesday to exchange views on the international situation, China’s development and foreign policy as well as China-Sierra Leone relations.
In his keynote address, Ambassador Hu pointed out that facing the complicated international situation and the new challenges and risks, China has all along stood on the right side of history and on the side of human progress, international equity and justice as well as the vast developing countries. China has chosen cooperation over confrontation, openness over isolation, mutual benefit over the zero-sum game, and equality over power politics and bullying. China opposes all kinds of unilateral sanctions and “long-arm jurisdiction”. Certain countries believe in power politics, try to provoke camp confrontation and attempt to drag the world into a “new cold war”, seriously threatening world peace and security.
Ambassador Hu said that China has injected tremendous impetus and provided strong support to world peace and development. The common modernization of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people is a great progress for mankind. China has sent more than 50,000 staffs to UN peacekeeping operations, being the largest peacekeepers provider among the permanent members of the UN Security Council and the second largest funding contributor to UN peacekeeping missions. China has provided more than 2.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the international community, making active efforts to fill the “immunity gap”. President Xi Jinping’s “Belt and Road” Initiative, the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative provide Chinese solutions to global governance deficit, trust deficit, peace deficit, and development deficit. China will continue to follow the development path with its own characteristics and continue to be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development and a defender of international order.
Ambassador Hu appreciated the Sierra Leone-China friendship organizations for their important contributions to the development of China-Sierra Leone relations. He added that China and Sierra Leone should cherish and make every effort to consolidate their time-honored friendship, vigorously enhance China-Sierra Leone cooperation and jointly achieve common development.
The event was attended by H.E. Hu Zhangliang, Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Hon. Member of Parliament and Chairman of Sierra Leone China Friendship Society Mr. Hindolo Gevao, Chairperson of Sierra Leone China Friendship Association Ms. Onike King, Chairman of Sierra Leone China Foundation Mr. Mohamed Kamara, President of Sino-Sierra Leone Alumni Association Mr. Alhaji Javambo, other representatives of Sierra Leone-China friendship organizations and media friends.
Representatives of the Sierra Leone-China friendship organizations spoke highly of China’s rapid development and the long-term sincere help to Sierra Leone. They affirmed that their organizations will stand in firm solidarity with China and continue to work on deepening the exchanges and friendship between the two peoples. AT/10/6/2022