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Xi offers US$1.1b for peace efforts
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CHINESE President Xi Jinping is offering more than US$1.1 billion to help with global peacekeeping efforts.
The leader of the world’s second largest economy pledged yesterday US$1 billion over the next decade to support the United Nations’ efforts to further international cooperation and global peace and development.
Xi said China would also set up a permanent peacekeeping standby force of 8,000 troops to be deployed whenever necessary.
China is already the biggest contributor of peacekeeping troops among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, having sent more than 30,000 on 29 separate missions.
Xi said China would also provide US$100 million in military assistance to the African Union over the next five years to support the establishment of an African standby peacekeeping force and to bolster the AU’s ability to respond to crises.
At the UN on Sunday, Xi said China would contribute an initial US$2 billion to establish an assistance fund for meeting post-2015 goals in areas such as education, health care and economic development. He said China would seek to increase the fund to US$12 billion by 2030.
He said China will always vote for developing countries in the United Nations, calling for more representation and voice in global governance for them.
Meanwhile, Xi urged developed countries to realize their emission-cutting promise and help developing countries deal with climate change.
US President Barack Obama warned UN member nations of the risks of failing to work together to solve world problems. He said the work of the UN remains incomplete seven decades after its founding and warns that “dangerous currents risk pulling us back into a darker, more disordered world.”
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