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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — The Group of Friends of Global Governance was officially launched on Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Representatives from approximately 40 founding countries of the group participated in the first meeting. The meeting was chaired by China's Permanent Representative to the UN, Fu Cong.

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Ashgabat, December 9 (Xinhua) — A roundtable training session on "Temporary Special Measures (TSM) to Expand Women's Participation in Public and Political Life" was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan's capital, on December 8-9, the country's International Information Center reported on Tuesday.

The event was held within the framework of a joint project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CEC) of Turkmenistan entitled “Assistance in building the capacity of the CEC in Turkmenistan”.

The training brought together representatives of the Central Election Commission, local electoral commissions, and political parties. The event aimed to strengthen capacity, share international experience, and discuss ways to increase women's political participation through the Higher Council of Magistrates, including legislative quotas.

According to UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Turkmenistan, Tomica Paovic, the SSM, recognized by the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), is an effective tool for removing barriers and ensuring women's fair participation in political life.

“By introducing quotas and requirements for the placement of candidates, Central Asian countries, including Turkmenistan, are achieving tangible results and advancing global commitments under CEDAW and the Sustainable Development Goals,” noted T. Paovic. –0–

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TIANJIN, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — The largest ever single shipment of Airbus aircraft components arrived at the port of Tianjin, north China, on Tuesday, marking a major milestone in logistics development and will help boost the European aircraft maker's production capacity in the region.

The cargo, including 12 large aircraft components, arrived aboard the container ship OOCL Denmark. The ship departed from Hamburg, Germany, and docked at the Pacific International Container Terminal in Tianjin Port on Tuesday morning.

This delivery is intended to support Airbus's recent expansion of its production capacity in Tianjin, one of the company's key global manufacturing hubs. In October of this year, the company launched its second final assembly line for the A320 family of aircraft in Tianjin, marking its second in China and the entire Asian continent.

To ensure the safe and smooth handling of the record-breaking cargo, the Dongjiang Border Inspection Station at Tianjin Port expedited customs procedures, including pre-clearance, ensuring a zero-waiting period for the arriving vessel.

Tianjin currently houses two of the world's 10 A320 final assembly lines. The combined production capacity of the assembly lines in the Chinese metropolis will now account for 20 percent of the company's global capacity.

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Beijing, December 9 (Xinhua) — Condoning the provocative words and actions of Japanese right-wingers in any form will only revive the specter of militarism and once again expose the peoples of Asia to danger, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.

The Chinese diplomat made this statement at a regular departmental briefing after several neighboring countries, including Russia, recently expressed strong disagreement with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous statements about Taiwan. Pakistan, Laos, Cambodia, and other countries reiterated their open support for the one-China principle.

As noted by media and experts in countries across the region, the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during World War II brought untold suffering to Asia and the world. Instead of deeply understanding Japan's war crimes, some political forces in the country are attempting to deny, distort, and even embellish the history of aggression, seeking to go beyond the pacifist constitution and "remilitarize" Japan.

Guo Jiakun recalled that in the last century, under the pretext of an “existential threat,” Japanese militarists unleashed a war of conquest against China and other Asian countries, taking the lives of millions of people and committing monstrous atrocities on the continent.

During World War II, the Japanese army committed three major massacres of civilians: the Nanking Massacre, which killed more than 300,000 people; the Manila Massacre, which killed nearly 100,000 Filipinos in just one month; and the Singapore Massacre, which killed tens of thousands.

"As documented in the verdict of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Japanese army organized more than 100 large-scale massacres in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and other places," Guo Jiakun said.

He added that prisoners of war from the Allied powers were subjected to cruel treatment by the Japanese military, with 27 percent of them killed after capture. During the Bataan Death March, approximately 15,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war died from inhumane treatment.

Hundreds of thousands of Southeast Asians and Allied prisoners of war, Guo Jiakun continued, were forced into slave labor by the Japanese army and died during the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway. More than 4 million Chinese laborers, forcibly recruited by the Japanese military, died or were injured due to backbreaking labor in brutal conditions.

The Chinese diplomat also mentioned women and girls from China, the Korean Peninsula, Southeast Asia, the Netherlands and other countries and regions who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military, turning them into "comfort women."

"Japan's war crimes cannot be erased from memory; the verdict on Japan's history of conquest cannot be revised," Guo Jiakun emphasized. He pointed out that any condoning of the provocative words and actions of the Japanese right, in any form, will only resurrect the specter of militarism and once again expose the peoples of Asia to danger.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry's official representative added that all countries are obligated to join forces to suppress any attempts to revive militarism and fascism, protect the results of victory in World War II, preserve the post-war international order, and ensure peace and stability throughout the world. –0–

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BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — China and the United States should continuously expand the list of cooperation and reduce the list of problems between the two sides, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng stressed on Tuesday.

He Lifeng, also a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, made the statement during a meeting in Beijing with Craig Allen, a senior adviser to the consulting firm Cohen Group.

As the Vice Premier of the State Council noted, since the beginning of this year, the leaders of China and the United States have held several telephone conversations and a successful meeting in Busan, Republic of Korea, reaching a number of important agreements.

According to He Lifeng, the two sides should maintain the momentum of cooperation under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state.

He emphasized that China is currently preparing to enter the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030) and intends to further expand its high-level opening-up. The Vice Premier welcomed greater participation by American enterprises in investment and commercial activities in China to promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of China-US trade and economic ties.

K. Allen, for his part, expressed his readiness to act as a bridge for further deepening economic and trade cooperation between the United States and China. –0–

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