On May 7, 2005, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon stressed the importance of trilateral cooperation at the 3rd meeting of the China, Japan and the ROK Three Party Committee held in Kyoto, Japan.
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The foreign ministers of the three countries all emphasize the importance of trilateral cooperation and reiterated that they would continue to strengthen cooperation in various fields, actively implement the Action Strategy of China, Japan and the ROK Cooperation passed at the leadership meeting of the three countries last year, encourage their economic research institutes to continue to study the potential economic impact of the free trade area of the three countries, reinforce consultations, discuss the legal framework of investment in the three countries, implement the measures of improving the business environment as soon as possible, enhance their cooperation in the field of energy resources, support holding large cultural exchanges such as the year of cultural exchange and promote the mutual understanding of the three peoples.
The three foreign ministers also exchanged opinions on the 10+3 cooperation, East Asia Summit, Korean Peninsular nuclear issue and the UN reform, decided to launch the vice foreign minister-level dialogue at appropriate time and strengthen coordination on the regional cooperation issues, held that the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue should be solved peacefully through diplomatic channels such as dialogue, the objective of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsular should be realized and the six-party talks should be resumed as soon as possible. They noted that special attentions should be paid to the reform of UN with focus on enhancing its representativeness, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness.
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing who hosted the meeting said that in recent years the cooperation among the three countries in various fields has been maintaining a sound development momentum and achieving headways, but there also exist some problems. We should proceed from the general trend of maintaining world peace and promoting development to adopt more policies beneficial to mutual trust, do more things favorable to the friendship among the three countries and avoid creating difficulties to the trilateral cooperation. So long as we take history as a mirror, face the reality and look into the future the trilateral cooperation will surely score greater progresses.