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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
THE HAGUE, November 25 (Xinhua) — China called on all member states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to promote genuine multilateralism and strengthen solidarity and cooperation.
"In recent years, under the influence of geopolitics, the OPCW has seen a growing trend of politicization and division, which has threatened the tradition of consensus-based decision-making," said Wang Daxue, head of the Chinese delegation and deputy director-general of the Arms Control Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, at a side event organized by the Chinese delegation to the 30th session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which opened on Monday in The Hague.
"Constructive dialogue and communication between member states is declining, and voting is increasingly necessary," a senior Chinese diplomat noted.
In the position paper, China proposed four initiatives, including adhering to the objectives and purposes of the CWC, supporting multilateralism, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries, and strengthening solidarity and coordination.
"China calls for maintaining the technical characteristics of the OPCW and avoiding politicization of its work," said Liu Xiaodong, China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the OPCW.
Representatives from Brazil, Uganda, Venezuela, Russia, Qatar, Mongolia and other countries supported the initiatives put forward by China.
"The OPCW must continue to make decisions based on consensus. But at the same time, the disagreements we face globally have led us to a different reality. Reaching consensus under these circumstances is not easy," Mirjam Blaak Sow, Uganda's Permanent Representative to the OPCW, told the gathering. –0–
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