Five Principles help nation to rise on the international stage
By Prime Sarmiento and Wen Zongduo in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2019-10-08 07:58
In late December 1953, during a meeting in Beijing with a visiting delegation from India, Premier Zhou Enlai first raised the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' website states.
The Five Principles formally took effect with the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet Region of China and India, which was signed in Beijing on April 29, 1954, according to India's Ministry of External Affairs' publicity division.
In its preamble, the pact stated that the two governments had resolved to enter into the present Agreement based on the following principles:
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