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Pakistan and China person agreed to "unswervingly safeguard" and make their bilateral relations by moving intimately to physique a shared future, according to a associated connection issued connected Tuesday (May 26, 2026).
The connection was issued astatine the extremity of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's authoritative sojourn to China from May 23-26 astatine the invitation of Premier Li Qiang. During his visit, the 2 sides signed a fig of practice documents successful assorted fields.
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li separately held talks with PM Shehbaz, and the 2 sides reached a caller wide statement connected further deepening the China-Pakistan All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership and connected planetary and determination issues of communal interest.
PM Sharif besides attended the ceremonial to commemorate the 75th day of the constitution of diplomatic relations betwixt the 2 countries and visited Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
Both sides reiterated absorption to immoderate unilateral actions and reaffirmed the value of maintaining bid and stableness successful South Asia and resolving each outstanding disputes done dialog and diplomacy, the connection said.
Like successful the erstwhile associated statements aft Pakistan leaders' visits, the caller connection besides said that the Pakistani broadside briefed the Chinese broadside connected the latest developments connected the concern successful Jammu and Kashmir. China, for its part, reiterated that the Jammu and Kashmir quality is near implicit from history, and should beryllium decently and peacefully resolved successful accordance with the UN Charter, applicable UN Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements.
The 2 sides expressed readiness to behaviour trans-boundary h2o resources practice nether the rule of equality and communal benefit, it said, without specifying immoderate details of collaboration arsenic the rivers emanating from China that travel to Pakistan walk done India.
India has kept the Indus Waters Treaty successful abeyance until Pakistan takes credible and irreversible steps to extremity enactment for terrorism.
China reiterated its "unwavering support" for Pakistan successful defending its nationalist sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and firmly supported Pakistan's efforts to safeguard its nationalist security, stability, improvement and prosperity.
Both sides were determined to "unswervingly safeguard" and make their bilateral relations, support high-level exchanges, and marque important progress, the connection said, the associated connection said.
Throughout the 75 years of diplomatic relations, this relationship has remained stone solid, nary substance however the planetary and determination situations evolved, and the 2 countries person ever trusted, respected and supported each different and stood by each different successful times of difficulties and challenges, the connection stated.
Both sides are determined to "deepen communal trust, applicable cooperation, defence and information cooperation, and support adjacent coordination connected planetary and determination issues," it stated.
Pakistan reaffirmed its beardown committedness to the one-China principle, saying that it firmly supports each efforts by China to execute nationalist reunification and resolutely opposes immoderate signifier of "Taiwan independence." The 2 neighbours agreed to beforehand high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, clasp the gathering of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Joint Cooperation Committee and beforehand the high-quality improvement of the upgraded mentation of CPEC 2.0.
They agreed to beforehand the Karakoram road (Thakot to Raikot) realignment task successful a phased and orderly mode and agreed to leverage the imaginable of the Gwadar Port and physique it into a determination connectivity hub.
The 2 sides besides welcomed 3rd parties to enactment successful the improvement of the CPEC nether the exemplary agreed upon by China and Pakistan.
Pakistan has assured to instrumentality targeted steps to fortify measures and practice to guarantee the information of Chinese personnel, projects and institutions successful Pakistan.
China supports Pakistan successful its continued and steadfast combat against terrorism, it said. Both sides called connected the planetary assemblage to heighten counter-terrorism practice and reaffirmed their steadfast absorption to applying treble standards connected politicising and instrumentalising counterterrorism.
They agreed to jointly beforehand an adjacent and orderly multipolar satellite and a universally beneficial and inclusive planetary economical order.
The 2 sides besides reiterated absorption to immoderate unilateral actions and reaffirmed the value of maintaining bid and stableness successful South Asia and resolving each outstanding disputes done dialog and diplomacy.
They expressed readiness to behaviour transboundary h2o resources practice nether the rule of equality.
Pakistan besides expressed enactment for the 4 propositions by President Xi connected safeguarding and promoting bid and stableness successful West Asia, adjacent arsenic China appreciated Pakistan's efforts successful facilitating the impermanent ceasefire betwixt the U.S. and Iran and holding the Islamabad Talks.
Both sides reiterated the aboriginal implementation of the five-point inaugural for restoring bid and stableness successful the Gulf and West Asia. The 2 countries besides agreed to enactment successful adjacent connection and coordination connected the contented of Afghanistan.
The 2 sides stressed the request not to let immoderate individual, radical oregon party, including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), to usage the territories to harm and endanger determination information and interests, oregon behaviour violent actions and activities.
