UN, China natural partners in peace

The United Nations welcomes the increasingly important role China has been playing across many areas of our (the UN's) work, including international peace and security. We share China's view that peace and development go hand in hand. We welcome China's determination to promote the reform of global governance with the UN at its core. We see China - with its long-term strategy of peaceful development, reform and opening-up - as our natural partner in this endeavor.

Our efforts to strengthen the UN's ability to prevent and resolve armed conflicts in fact mirror China's pursuit of the "3Cs" - comprehensive, cooperative and common security.

Regrettably, prevention does not always work. However, even in cases where it has clearly failed, such as Syria or the Central African Republic, good offices offer a potentially successful path back to security and reconciliation: diplomacy must continue to prod the parties to step back from the brink and face each other around a negotiating table. Political challenges lie at the center of most conflicts and are the key both to their prevention and their resolution. Only by finding political solutions can we ensure that peace, when it does come, actually holds over the long term.