The Chinese Premier arrived in South Korea to participate in the trilateral meeting

report Mehr News According to Reuters, Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang arrived in Seoul this Sunday to participate in a tripartite meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts; A meeting that takes place for the first time after 4 years.

Previously, the three countries had agreed to hold a meeting every year since 2008 to strengthen regional cooperation, but this initiative was canceled due to bilateral differences and The covid-19 pandemic has been disrupted. Their last tripartite meeting was at the end of 2019.

According to South Korean officials, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yol, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Li Chiang issued a joint statement on six areas including the economy and Trade, science and technology, exchanges of the people of this country and the health and aging of the population will be approved.

The South Korean president is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with Lee and Kishida on Sunday ahead of their trilateral meeting on Monday.

The NHK website quoted the Japanese government as saying that Kishida is expected to meet separately with Li Chiang on Sunday, during which the ban on seafood imports from Japan and Taiwan will be discussed. will raise from China.

This tripartite meeting will be held while South Korea and Japan are trying to mend relations that have been broken due to historical differences and to deepen the tripartite security partnership with the United States. They are in the midst of intensifying competition between China and America.

China has previously warned that US efforts to further improve relations with South Korea and Japan could fuel regional tension and confrontation.