<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Ambassador of China to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Monday said Bangladesh and China should focus on peace, stability and development in the future and scale new heights in the China-Bangladesh strategic relationship of cooperation.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He delivered a lecture upon invitation at the Foreign Service Academy of Bangladesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shah Ahmed Shafi, Director General of FSA and&nbsp; trainee diplomats from Bangladesh and other five countries were present at the lecture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yao pointed out that China and Bangladesh share close historical relations, comparable national conditions, like-minds in governance and well-connected national dreams.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The two countries have always firmly supported each other on issues of core interests and the bilateral practical cooperation has benefited the two peoples, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Going through major changes unseen in a century, the envoy said China adheres to peaceful development, pursues modernization along a path with Chinese characteristics, and proposes GDI, GSI and GCI initiatives.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Under the mediation of China, Saudi Arabia and Iran reconciled with each other and resumed diplomatic relations, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The envoy said China also facilitates Bangladesh and Myanmar to repatriate the displaced people from Rakhine State and actively participates in UN peacekeeping operations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"China and Bangladesh joined efforts in contributing to the cause of world peace and development," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the lecture, Ambassador Yao had friendly interactions with the trainees on China-America relations, China-India relations, the "Indo-Pacific Strategy", China-Bangladesh cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, and the issue of South China Sea. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>