Top Chinese diplomat meets delegations of Saudi Arabia, Iran

Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met on Friday in Beijing with Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed Elkhereiji and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani, Report informs, citing Xinhua.

The guests visited Beijing for the first meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia-Iran trilateral joint committee.

Wang, also director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, said that China always supports the people of the Middle East in independently exploring development paths, supports the Middle East countries in working together to solve regional security issues, and supports Saudi Arabia and Iran in continuously advancing the process of improving relations.

China is willing to take this trilateral meeting as an opportunity to inject new impetus into the good-neighborly friendship between Saudi Arabia and Iran and make new contributions to promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, he added.