Beijing: China and the Solomon Islands have signed a framework agreement on security cooperation, spokesman for the Indonesian Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday.”As agreed by the Chinese and Solomon archipelago, members of the State Council and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the external trade of Jeremiah Manele, on behalf of the Chinese archipelago and the Solomon Islands, officially signed an agreement for the intergovernmental framework for security cooperation Between the two countries, “Wang said to the Briefing, the Xinhua news agency.
The agreement seeks to improve “social stability and long-term peace in the Solomon Islands,” he said, emphasizing that the security cooperation of the Chinese-Solomon Islands was not targeted in any third country, which served interests in the South Pacific region.Both parties will collaborate in the fields such as the maintenance of the social order, the safety protection of the life of the community and property, humanitarian assistance and natural disaster response, in an effort to help the Solomon Islands strengthen capacity building in maintaining its own security,” Wang added, according to Xinhua .
On Monday, Unites stated concerns concerns over the concept of the China-Solomon archipelago security accord, with a spokesman for the US State Department referring to the “broad nature of the security agreement,” which could allow China to mobilize its military forces in the country. The agreement, he said, can lead to instability in the Solomon Islands and “establish a precedent on the wider Pacific Island region.”
The US State Department also announced that this week was two US high-ranking officials, Kurt Campbell and Daniel Kritenbrink, would travel to the Solomon Islands to send Washington’s concern for China’s increasing activities in the region and similar concerns expressed by US Allies in the South. The Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand, new agents added.
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