Closer international cooperation is needed to combat the growing terrorist threat, a senior UN security chief has said.
China is playing an important role in promoting arms control, disarmament and the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, all of which are key goals for the United Nations, a senior official has said.
A new model of major country relationship between China and the United States, characterized by mutually beneficial cooperation, is conducive to the cause of the United Nations, experts have said.
Peng Liyuan, the first lady of China and UNESCO Special Envoy for the Advancement of Girls' and Women's Education, delivered a speech in English at the United Nations on Sept 26 for a high-level event marking the inclusion of education as a transformative stand-alone goal in the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
"I'd never guessed President Xi's hand was so warm and soft," Lang Lang, 33, the Chinese superstar pianist, told me over the phone on Saturday morning, half an hour after he shook hands with Xi at United Nations headquarters in New York.
China's announcement to support and promote South-South Cooperation was widely hailed Saturday at a roundtable co-hosted by China and the United Nations.
South-South cooperation is characterized by equality, win-win cooperation and solidarity, Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Saturday.
First Lady and UNESCO's Special Envoy for Girls' and Women's Education Peng Liyuan delivered a speech at the Global Education First Initiative event at the United Nations in New York.
First Lady Peng Liyuan, UNESCO's Special Envoy for the Advancement of Girls' and Women's Education, delivers a speech in English at the Global Education First Initiative event at the United Nations in New York on Sept 26, 2015.
The projects, declared at a South-South cooperation roundtable President Xi hosted, covers poverty reduction, agriculture, trade, environment, health and education.