Foreign Minister Wang Yi calls for restraint, ceasefire, offers Beijing’s mediation to support regional peace
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends the ASEAN post-ministerial conference with China at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 10, 2025. Source: Reuters
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that the problems between Afghanistan and Pakistan can only be resolved through dialogue and consultations.
Porcelain Xinua News reported that the use of force would only complicate the situation and intensify contradictions, which would benefit neither side and threaten regional peace and stability, he said.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Afghan Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi at the latter’s request.
Muttaqi thanked China for its active efforts in mediating the conflicts between Afghanistan and Pakistan, noting that the Afghan people, who have suffered greatly from the war, value opportunities for peace and development.
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The Afghan Foreign Minister said his country wants to be a source of regional peace rather than unrest, reaffirming that its territory will not be used to attack neighboring countries.
Afghanistan does not wish to engage in military conflicts with other countries and hopes for mutual trust and friendly coexistence with neighboring countries, he said.
The Afghan side believes that dialogue and consultations are the only way to resolve problems and hopes that China, as an important country and friendly neighbor, will play a more important role, he said.
For his part, Wang said that the more volatile the external environment becomes, more regional countries should strengthen unity and cooperation, overcome difficulties together, and forge a path of cooperative security and common security.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are inseparable brothers and neighbors who cannot be separated from each other, he said.
China has always maintained an objective and impartial stance on the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict, Wang said.
The special envoy for Afghan affairs of China’s Foreign Ministry is traveling between the two countries to mediate, he said, adding that both sides are expected to remain calm and exercise restraint, have face-to-face exchanges at an early date, achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible and resolve differences and contradictions through dialogue.
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China is willing to continue making active efforts to help achieve reconciliation and detente between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Wang said.
The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in Iran.
Wang reaffirmed China’s principled position and affirmed that China is willing to work with the international community, including Afghanistan, to continue playing a constructive role in the struggle for peace.
