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![]() Secretary Kerry’s Press Availability in Beijing 美国务卿克里在北京会见新闻记者 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
SECRETARY KERRY: Sorry to be running a little late, everybody. I appreciate everybody’s patience very, very much. Let me try to give you a summary of what has been I think an extremely constructive and positive day – frankly, more agreement than disagreement in many – in most, in all respects – I think beyond what I anticipated in many regards. And I thank our host in China for the privilege to, as I think you know, to be able to meet with President Xi, with Premier Li, as well as with my counterpart, Foreign Minister Wang and also just to finish to both an energy cooperation program as well as a dinner with State Councilor Yang Jiechi. And we had a continued conversation on a number of topics tonight which were important, which is why we took a little longer. I’m personally really pleased to be back in Beijing. And I’m confident that this will be the first of a number of trips here because of the importance of our relationship, which in many ways, I think today took a significant step forward and gained even greater definition in terms of that importance. Both President Xi and Premier Li and the new government have talked at great length about trying to build an even stronger relationship with the United States. And they have talked about the ways in which we can create a model partnership in our relationship. President Obama is excited about that prospect, and we are going to fully explore all of its possibilities. It is absolutely clear to everybody that when you have two of the most powerful – the two most powerful economies in the world and two of the most significant energy users in the world, as well as two members of the permanent Security Council of the United Nations, with interests that extend around the world, you have the possibility of being able to create synergy. And that’s what we really talked about here today, how to deal with the cooperative relationship between us in order to contribute to global economic security and to global fiscal security. I look forward to strengthening many of the things that we began to discuss today, and I’ll be very precise with you about what they were. President Obama has said many times, and I repeat today that the United States welcomes a stable and prosperous China, a China that is a great power already, and that has the ability to be able to play a major role in world affairs. We have a stake in China’s success, and frankly, China has a stake in the success of the United States. That became clear in all of our conversations here today. A constructive partnership that is based on mutual interest benefits everybody in the world. And today we had the opportunity to talk about a large number of bilateral, regional, and global security issues, beginning, of course, with the issue of North Korea. China joined with the United States tonight through the statement that I made earlier, and the statement that Yang Jiechi made, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, that we both joined in stating that the United States and China remain fully committed to the September 2005 joint statement of the Six-Party Talks and to its core goal. And that core goal is the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in a peaceful manner. Together we talked about how we can give that a little more energy, a little more life over the course of these next days. And what we agreed to do is immediately bear down with further discussion at a very senior level in order to fill out exactly what steps we can take together to make sure that this is not rhetoric, but that it is real policy that is being implemented. To that end, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will be traveling out here shortly, as will other members of our intel community, as well as Deputy Secretary Burns later this month. So there will be very focused, continued, high-level discussions about the ways to fill in any blanks that may exist as a consequence of the lack of time tonight. We also joined together in calling on North Korea to refrain from provocations and to abide by international obligations. We also discussed our shared interest in preventing Iran from securing a nuclear weapon and agreed on how valuable close cooperation between our countries is in the accomplishment of both of these goals. And these goals, we agreed, are not unrelated. What happens with respect to North Korea can affect Iran, and what happens with Iran can affect North Korea. And we are committed in both cases to not see the world move towards nuclearization, but to move in the opposite direction in a peaceful way. The Foreign Minister and I also had a significant discussion about energy and climate change. And as a consequence of that, we have agreed at the highest level, with President Xi and with the Premier, to elevate the United States-China cooperation on climate and energy to a ministerial level, to a higher level, so that it can receive the full focus of our governments on an accelerated basis with an understanding of the urgency of the science that is telling us that we need to deal with the human contributions to the problem of climate. The Government of China is committed as never before to this endeavor because the people of China are asking for that kind of action, and because they are feeling some of the consequences of this change, as are we in the United States in many different ways. So we will now have a working group that will start immediately to prepare for talks in the week of July 8th in what is called the S&ED, the Security and Economic Development Dialogue that takes place between China and the United States. I will be chairing that together with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, and the Chinese have agreed that State Councilor Yang Jiechi will also be chairing. And I think there are one or two other chairs that China will announce at the appropriate time. In addition to the elevation of the climate issue to a significantly heightened level of effort and urgency, we also discussed cyber security, and we agreed there also that we will create an immediate working group because cyber security affects everybody. It affects airplanes in the sky, trains on their tracks. It affects the flow of water through dams. It affects transportation networks, power plants. It affects the financial sector, banks, financial transactions. Every aspect of nations in modern times are affected by use of cyber networking, and obviously all of us, every nation, has an interest in protecting its people, protecting its rights, protecting its infrastructure. And so we are going to work immediately on an accelerated basis on cyber. We also had conversations about regional maritime security, including disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. And we talked about how important it is for all parties not to raise tensions that could undermine peace and security and economic growth in the region, not to engage in unilateral actions. And I spoke also with the Foreign Minister about the deteriorating situation in Syria. The State Councilor reminded me that he was present at the negotiations in Geneva, and that he agrees completely – China agrees completely – with the framework of the Geneva communiqué which mandates a dialogue coming through a transfer of authority to a transitional government by mutual consent from both sides. And he reemphasized China’s commitment to that approach, believing that the world will be better served by a political solution than by continued fighting. In addition to that, let me say that we agreed that we will continue to develop the United States-China relationship through extensive engagement in the Security and Economic Development dialogue, as well as in our people-to-people exchanges and the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. And through these and other in-depth discussions, we are going to work to try to enhance mutual trust and understanding based on mutual respect between our countries. We also raised, as I have at every occasion at any stop anywhere, the issue of human rights, specific cases of concern with respect to that. And we agreed to continue that discussion with respect to those individual cases. We also discussed one other item of importance, and that is a conflict between some businesses – some businesses that are American tried to do business in China, and some Chinese that are trying to do business in the United States. And we agreed that both sides – excuse me – that both sides need to find an accelerated way to try to resolve issues that arise with respect to those particular business concerns. And so we are also going to place that issue within the Security and Economic Development dialogue, which is an appropriate place for it and where it fits. So we have our work cut out for us. And I want to thank all of the officials I’ve met with for their open willingness today to accept this kind of workload, to take on these new challenges, to accept the responsibility for improving this important relationship. And as we work to do that between our two countries, we believe we are not only building a relationship between governments, but we’re building a relationship between people, between families, between friends, between entrepreneurs, students, scholars, artists, and others. And we intend to try to grow our people-to-people exchanges, because in the end, those can be perhaps the most consequential and enduring results of diplomacy. So I again thank our host for their hospitality today, and I would be delighted to take on a few questions.
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