Xi calls for new-type int'l relations
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E-mail Xinhua, March 24, 2013
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday called for building a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation at the core.
Delivering a speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Xi expounded on China's view on the current international situation and its position on international relations.
The Chinese leader stressed that China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development and steadfastly develop its comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination with Russia.
Xi, accompanied by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets and the institute's President Anatoly Torkunov, spoke to a packed auditorium.
"We are now living in a rapidly changing world...Peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit have become the trend of our times," Xi said.
"To keep up with the times, we cannot have ourselves physically living in the 21st century, but with a mindset belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism, and constrained by zero-sum Cold War mentality," Xi said.
"People of all nations should combine their efforts to safeguard world peace and promote common development," Xi said.
Meanwhile, Xi said China believes that it is up to the people of a country to choose their own path of development and that people worldwide can share the fruits of development and security.
In the face of complex security threats, one country cannot act alone and it is even worse if it is obsessed with military options," he said. "The only right choice is to achieve collective and common security through cooperation."
Xi said the international community should stand by the democratic principles governing world affairs, under which the fate of the world lies in the hands of all people in the world, the internal affairs of a sovereign nation is decided by its government and people, and world affairs are managed by governments and their people through consultations.
Xi said China has mapped out its development blueprint at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held in November.
The Chinese people fully understand that only through continuous and arduous efforts can the goals set in the blueprint be reached, he added.
