ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday stressed the need for resolving conflicts amicably, saying that Pakistan endeavours to foster a culture of peace and explore all avenues of cooperation with neighbours.
“This is not the time for fuelling ideological warfare or fomenting divisions,” the prime minister said in his address at the launch of Urdu edition of President Xi Jinping’s book “Governance in China” at the PM Office in Islamabad.
“Now we have this historic opportunity to address apprehensions of our neighbours, to practice non-interference, to build confidence and to use all instruments of diplomacy to resolve conflicts peacefully,” he said.
The prime minister said that multilateral institutions like the United Nations should play a more active role to eliminate poverty worldwide, empower people and fight the distant and emerging situations.
“President Xi demonstrates how important it is to forge peaceful relations as a precursor for strong economic ties between neighbours, within regions and across continents,” he said.
Nawaz Sharif said that China’s concept of peaceful development envisages secure prosperous and friendly neighbourhood. He said that this coincides with Pakistan’s own endeavours to foster a culture of peace and of regional and international relations that avoids strife and explores all avenues of cooperation.
“We must share and propagate success and that should be the spirit of our times,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister said that President Xi was China’s great leader and a steadfast friend of Pakistan. He mentioned that President Xi’s book was not just about high politics but dwelled on moving stories of common man, hard work and family values.
Sharif said that the peaceful development of China had stimulated peaceful rise of world, adding that President Xi’s book was as much about Chinese and a global dream.
“We learn how China transformed itself, that puts ahead people needs full and modernizes its economy and governance besides leading a revolution of information technology,” he said.
The prime minister said that the book captured rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and giving details how the Chinese experience of governance was unique and also had universal applications too. He said that it was a lesson for other nations as well to build themselves with inherent national characteristics.
Source: APP/DND
