CCTV: Not long ago, at the High-level Dialogue on Global Development, various leaders of participating countries said that China's Global Development Initiative (GDI) is in line with the development needs of relevant countries.They added that they would continue to support the IDG.Could the Chinese side inform us about the progress of the IDG and the work on the next stage?Zhao Lijian: Since President Xi Jinping introduced the IDG in September last year, the IDG has received warm and positive responses from the international community.More than 100 countries and many international organizations, including the United Nations (UN), have expressed their support for the GDI, and nearly 60 countries have joined the Group of Friends of the GDI established by China on the platform of the UN.As you just said, at the recent High-Level Dialogue on Global Development, the leaders of many countries made positive comments about the IDG.They considered that this initiative is very much in line with the urgent development needs of all countries, especially developing countries, and provides a feasible path to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. At the meeting, President Xi Jinping proposed a series of practical cooperation measures to promote global development.After the event, the Chinese side released a result list consisting of 32 items.This constitutes China's initial move to implement the IDG.The leaders present at the meeting paid high praise to this and expressed their willingness to cooperate.In the next stage, China is willing to work with the international community to actively implement the results of the dialogue, promote the international community to focus on development issues, and allocate more resources to global development cooperation.It is also ready to make joint efforts with all parties to strengthen practical cooperation in key areas put forward by the IDG such as poverty alleviation, food security, COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine fight, financing for development , climate change and green development, industrialization, digital economy and interconnectivity in the digital age, successfully complete the development of a project base for global development, and strengthen knowledge sharing on development.The IDG adheres to the spirit of open and inclusive partnership.We welcome the participation of all countries and international organizations, UN agencies in particular and developed countries included, in order to form the strongest synergy to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.MASTV: According to press reports, on July 1, a representative from Palau said at the closing ceremony of the UN Oceans Conference that the representatives “were not given badges and were not allowed to be part of our delegation. simply because they have 'Taiwanese passports'”."We see this as a violation of our sovereign rights," the person said, adding that the UN should not have "excluded the 23 million Taiwanese from the conversation."A delegate from the United States said that no relevant committee "should have pressured them to remove these people from their delegations."Does the Chinese side have any comments on this matter?Zhao Lijian: This is the third time I have provided an answer to this question.Taiwanese authorities have tried on multiple occasions to deliberately stir up trouble.Is it because they think breaking into the conference is something glorious?There is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China.The one-China principle is a basic norm governing international relations and a universal consensus of the international community.In accordance with the one-China principle, Taiwan is not entitled to attend as a delegation the activities of the UN and its specialized agencies and those of international intergovernmental organizations limited to sovereign states.The aforementioned principles and consensus will not change simply because certain countries have backed and emboldened the Taiwan authorities.The failure of the Taiwan authorities' attempts to sneak into the conference was inevitable.Such a practice of lowering their own moral dignity and bringing disgraceful consequences upon themselves has become a source of ridicule for the international community.Shenzhen Satellite TV: According to news reports, the administrator of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Bill Nelson, said the other day in an interview with a German media outlet that the China's space program is a "military" space program and that China could "take control" of the Moon.He also accused China of stealing designs and technologies from other countries, adding that one of the tasks of China's space station is to learn how to destroy other countries' satellites.What is the Chinese side's comment on this?Zhao Lijian: This is not the first time that the NASA administrator has lashed out at China in a mindless, irresponsible, ignoring factual manner.Some US officials have been creating false accusations to slander the normal and reasonable cause of China's outer space.The Chinese side firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks.As head of the US aerospace authorities, he must be well aware of the "dark history" of the US space program.The United States has played a negative role in creating space debris, inciting the space arms race and sabotaging the global strategic balance, posing a huge threat to the peaceful use of outer space.In recent years, the United States has even blatantly defined space as a "domain of war," hastened the formation of a space force and space command, and has researched, developed, and deployed offensive space weapons.The US side has also long passively resisted negotiations on a legal instrument for arms control in outer space and strengthened military cooperation in empty space with its allies.In addition, the United States has hampered space cooperation, arbitrarily imposed sanctions on other countries' space agencies, and passed bills to ban space cooperation and exchanges with China.The international community has long since become aware of such hegemonic acts, double standards and hypocritical words from the US side.The Chinese side consistently advocates the peaceful use of outer space, opposes the militarization of outer space and the arms race in outer space, and actively promotes the building of the community with a shared future of mankind in the field of outer space.China conducts space exploration in order to meet its legitimate economic, social, scientific and technological, and security needs, among other things.The development of China's space cause is achieved through its own independent efforts, and its rights, interests and achievements do not admit any questioning or defamation.We urge the US side to seriously shoulder its responsibilities as a major country, earnestly reflect and rectify its negative words and actions in the field of outer space, and make due contributions to maintaining lasting peace and security in outer space. sidereal.AFP: Japan lodged a protest with China after a Chinese warship sailed in waters around the disputed "Senkaku Islands".What is the Chinese side's response to this?Zhao Lijian: Diaoyu Island and its adjacent islets constitute an inseparable part of Chinese territory.The activities of Chinese ships in the adjacent waters are legitimate and legal.The Japanese side has no right to make irresponsible comments on this.Kyodo News: This morning, Russian Navy ships also entered the relevant adjoining waters (to the "Senkaku Islands").Was this a joint operation between China and Russia?Zhao Lijian: I have just clearly stated China's position on this issue.I guess what you said is your own interpretation.Regarding the actions of the Russian side, if you are interested, we would like you or your colleagues to ask the Russian side questions.Reuters: Earlier this morning, the US ambassador to China, R. Nicholas Burns, told a forum: “I wish Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesmen would stop accusing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of ) to start this war.That is Russian propaganda."He added that he too hopes they will stop spreading lies about US biolabs.What is the comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in this regard?Zhao Lijian: It is the US side, not the Chinese side, that has consistently spread disinformation and lies.The Chinese side has always independently judged the Ukrainian issue according to its historical record and the right and wrong of the issue.On the issue of US biological laboratories abroad, including its biological laboratories in Ukraine, there are numerous facts and evidence.The international community has serious concerns in this regard, and the United States has a responsibility to explain to the world.Why hasn't the United States opened up Fort Detrick and its overseas biolabs to independent international verification?Why has he single-handedly prevented the establishment of a verification mechanism under the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)?HBTV: A few days ago, a freight transit yard at the Vientiane South Station of the China-Laos Railway was completed and put into operation, symbolizing the achievement of railway interconnectivity between China, Laos and Thailand.What comment do you have about this?Zhao Lijian: As you just said, the completion and operation of the freight transit yard of the Vientiane South Station of the China-Laos Railway symbolizes greater convenience and smoothness of China's land-sea intermodal logistics transportation channel. -Laos-Thailand.To the north, the China-Laos railway can reach multiple central Chinese cities and connect with the China-Europe freight train network;and, to the south, it can reach Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.As a result, Laos has been transformed from a landlocked country into a land-connected country and now faces unprecedented development opportunities.As of June 30 this year, the China-Laos railway, since its inauguration at the end of last year, has carried four million passengers and nearly five million tons of goods, including more than 800,000 tons of cross-border goods.More than 20 Chinese provinces and cities have opened cross-border freight train services using the China-Laos Railway, transporting more than 100 kinds of products, including fruits, photovoltaic and electronic products, and covering more than ten countries in the region, including Laos and Thailand.The China-Laos railway is increasingly becoming an accelerator for regional interconnectivity and a new engine driving economic cooperation, so it has been universally welcomed by countries in the region.The China-Laos railway has also become a vivid embodiment of the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road between China and the ASEAN countries and in a strong testament to their concerted efforts to put the IDG into practice.Over the past nearly nine years since the introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative, China has signed cooperation documents on the joint construction of the Belt and Road with 149 countries, including Laos, and 32 international organizations.More than 3,000 cooperation projects have been formed, with investments reaching almost one billion US dollars.Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors, the journey towards global economic recovery is difficult, and the challenges faced by developing countries, such as lack of investment and shortage of funds, are have become more prominent.We welcome the participation of more countries in the region in cooperation under the Belt and Road framework to share the opportunities and dividends generated by interconnectivity.Today, the 7th Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) has just been successfully held in Myanmar.China is willing to work with Laos and other member states of this mechanism to jointly implement the results of the meeting, keep in mind the original aspirations of mutual benefit, win-win and common development, and jointly build a demonstration zone for joint construction quality of the Belt and Road, with a view to bringing more benefits to the people of the countries in the region and providing a stronger impetus for regional stability and prosperity.Xinhua News Agency: Not long ago, China successfully held the 14th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit, which has received warm responses at home and abroad.What are the considerations of the Chinese side regarding its next work as the country that holds the presidency of the BRICS?Zhao Lijian: Not long ago, the 14th BRICS Summit was successfully held.Leaders of the five countries, meeting in the cloud, held an in-depth exchange of views and reached broad consensus on strengthening BRICS cooperation, defending world peace and promoting common development.The meeting produced a series of pioneering, guiding and institutional results, marking the start of a new journey in BRICS cooperation.The summit concluded with resounding success, but the BRICS' “Year of China” has only just reached the halfway point.As the country holding the presidency, China will continue to advance its work in an orderly manner.In the second half of this year, we plan to hold about 80 meetings and events.In July alone, we will hold important ministerial meetings in fields such as communications, anti-corruption, labor and employment, as well as activities in various fields and at multiple levels, including intellectual property rights (IPR), ideas and means of communication.The Chinese side looks forward to making joint efforts with other parties to the BRICS mechanism to properly implement the results and consensus reached at the summit, further consolidate the BRICS strategic partnership, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, continuously strengthen the construction of the mechanism and inject a strong driving force to the realization of high-quality development of the BRICS.People's Daily: We have noted that Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said in a recent interview that NATO wants Serbia to engage in a conflict with Russia, but Serbia will not, nor will it become a “ NATO foot soldier.If NATO really believes that respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is the most important principle of international politics, then it should apologize for bombing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he added.What is your comment on this?Zhao Lijian: This Serbian minister is very right!His words reflect the voices of many countries in the international community.It is not just Serbia that NATO should apologize to.For the last decades, NATO, led by the United States, has used humanitarian interference as a pretext to launch the war in Kosovo, intervene in Iraq, Libya and Syria, and occupy Afghanistan for 20 long years.According to incomplete statistics, wars that NATO has waged or participated in after 2001 have claimed the lives of 900,000 people, including 400,000 civilians, and have caused the displacement of tens of millions of refugees.NATO has claimed to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries and has declared itself a defensive alliance, but what it has done is exactly the opposite.The fact that NATO is now trying to reproduce in the Asia-Pacific region the crisis and confrontation between blocs that it has created in Europe and elsewhere is a cause for concern.The countries of the region and the international community must remain on high alert and categorically reject this.Following the press conference, the following questions were asked: A few days ago, demonstrations broke out in Nukus, the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakistan, Uzbekistan.What is the Chinese side's comment on this?Zhao Lijian: China has taken note of what happened in Uzbekistan a few days ago.As a friendly neighbor and comprehensive strategic partner of Uzbekistan, China supports the Uzbek government in maintaining national stability and is confident that under the leadership of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan will maintain calm and unity.According to news reports, on June 30, the Government of Ecuador and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) signed a peace agreement, and the protests and demonstrations in the country have basically ended.Does the Chinese side have any comments on this?Zhao Lijian: China and Ecuador are comprehensive strategic partners.China is pleased to see the peaceful resolution of disagreements by relevant parties in Ecuador within the framework of the Constitution and laws, as well as their efforts to maintain a stable social order.Contact us at the following address: Chaoyangmen Nan Dajie 2, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100701 Telephone: 86-10-65961114