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Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Diaoyutai State House during her first official visit to the country since taking office.
As she sat for talks with President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called China an “important interlocutor” of the world.
Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni has vowed to "relaunch" relations with China as she began her first visit to Beijing since taking office.
Meloni is on a visit to China where she has sought to reset Italy’s bilateral relationship with the country. The visit comes months after she pulled Italy out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Earlier on Sunday, she met Premier Li Qiang and the two signed a three-year economic agreement. She said the visit would “relaunch our bilateral cooperation”.
A day after she met Li, Meloni on Monday sat with President Xi for talks at Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, according to AFP.
Meloni told Xi that the two countries must think together as to how to guarantee stability and peace in the world.
In her talks with Xi, Meloni said that there is growing insecurity at the international level and it should be a top priority to keep the rules-based order stable.
“There is growing insecurity at an international level and I think that China is inevitably a very important interlocutor to address all these dynamics…Above all we need the system of rules in which we operate to remain stable,” said Meloni
It comes after Ms Meloni last year removed her country from President Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
At the time, Rome said the massive Chinese investment scheme had failed to bring any benefits to Italy.
Ms Meloni described her trip as a "demonstration of the will to begin a new phase, to relaunch our bilateral cooperation".
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