Kyrgyzstan and China enjoying fruits of comprehensive strategic partnership - Kyrgyz president

Bishkek, Sept. 6, 2022. / Kabar /. Recently, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov gave an interview to Xinhua and other Chinese media, accrediated in the country. In a written interview, speaking about Kyrgyz-Chinese relations, President Zhaparov said that the relations are developing vigorously and are at a high level, covering political, economic, cultural fields. The Kyrgyz-Chinese relations have been tested by time and have developed into a comprehensive strategic partnership, he said. "We are now enjoying the fruits of this partnership: enhanced political mutual trust between the two countries, active development of cooperation in the field of security, and expanding economic and trade cooperation," Zhaparov said. He added that in the international arena, the two countries provide mutual support over issues of each other's concern, and conduct cooperation within frameworks including the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia and the China + Central Asia cooperation mechanism. In the interview, the Kyrgyz president mentioned the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) multiple times, saying that Kyrgyzstan is one of the earliest supporters of and participants in the Belt and Road cooperation. Against the background of the rapidly changing international situation and increasing unstable factors, the Belt and Road cooperation proposed by President Xi has created conditions for maintaining regional peace and stability. The Kyrgyz president stressed that the BRI gives the Central Asian region an opportunity to solve the strategic task of direct access to seaports and turn the region into a crossroads of transcontinental highways from east to west, and from north to south. In this regard, the implementation of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project will be an important step to fully unleash the transit potential of the region, he added.