The UN has contributed unceasing efforts in safeguarding international
peace and security, in curbing aggression and in promoting international
cooperation over the past 60 years, and has matured into the most important
international organization in maintaining peace and stability and in boosting
common development in the world. As one of the major sponsor nations of the UN,
China has played its part in the formal founding of the UN and in helping the UN
Charter to take effect.
China has all along been energetic in supporting and participating in
various work of the UN, in observing the UN bills and resolutions, and in
upholding the basic principles of the UN Charter. It has made positive efforts
in safeguarding justice and international order. The five principles for
peaceful co-existence and other basic norms initiated by China aiming at solving
disputes between nations are completely in conformity with the purpose and the
essence of the UN Charter. The flexible and pragmatic approach that China has
adopted for boosting peace and development has substantiated the practice of
dealing with the inter-state relations within the framework of the UN. It can be
safely put that it is precisely because of the proactive participation of China
in maintaining peace and stability that the UN has fledged into a worldwide
international organization and has likewise played a positive role in seeking
after the common development of the mankind.
China is a newly emerged market boasting the fastest economic development
and the biggest potential in the world. Its robust economic burgeoning serves as
the driving force behind the global economic growth. To maintain a long-term and
stable economic growth and to constantly improve the living standard of the
Chinese people is not only the duty of the Chinese government to the Chinese
people but also a kind of contribution it has made to the UN in fully executing
its mandate of promoting peace and development.
In the past 25 years, China has solved the problem of providing adequate
food and clothing for 0.22 billion poverty-stricken people and improved the
people's living conditions by a big margin, hence a miracle in the history of
mankind. By around 2020, the total volume of economic production in China will
climb to about US$4,000 billion. In the process of turning its ambitious
blueprint into reality, China will surely benefit the other countries and become
a nation making greater contributions to the world.
In pace with the self-prosperity and development is the mounting
responsibility of China in ensuring global security and prosperity. China is a
key participant in the process of anti-proliferation and international war on
terrorism. Under the principle of respecting the sovereignty and not interfering
with the internal affairs of the related countries as well as solving disputes
through peaceful means, China has actively participated in the UN peace-keeping
operations in Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Congo (Kinshasa),etc. China has
dispatched a large number of military observers, engineering contingents and
medical teams to practically all its peace-keeping regions. In the UN
peace-keeping operations, China has dispatched over 2,000 person/times of
military personnel and civil policemen who have left their footprints in all the
hotspots. China has signed and strictly observed most of the international
conventions and pacts and actively participated in a range of key international
arms control negotiations such as the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and
seriously implemented the regulations of the international arms control
conventions. For the sake of improving military transparency, China has
established and developed a national defense whitepaper system in a bid to fit
in with the new security situation and thereafter has released papers such as
disarmament and arms control report and the whitepaper on national defense
policy. Presently, China has established military diplomatic relations with 146
countries in the world.
The 60th UN Anniversary Summit will be held in the UN headquarters in New
York and the Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend the summit. This is not
only an expression that China supports and values the role of the UN, but also
an indication that China will as ever observe the tenet and principle of the UN
Charter, energetically support and take part in the various work of the UN and
make untiring efforts for strengthening the role of the UN and for realizing the
lofty objectives of making world peace and human progress come true.
By Ouyang Wei
(Sep. 14, PLA Daily)