{"id":44571,"date":"2015-12-05T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=44571"},"modified":"2015-12-05T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:06:13","slug":"china-a-dependable-partner-in-our-change-agenda-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/china-a-dependable-partner-in-our-change-agenda-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"China, A Dependable Partner In Our Change Agenda \u2013 Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_2137910583\">Saturday<\/span>\u00a0in South Africa said that the Peoples<br \/>\nRepublic of China remains a strategic and dependable partner in his<br \/>\nadministration\u2019s determination to change the direction and content of<br \/>\ngovernance, including the management of the country\u2019s resources with<br \/>\npriority on accountability, transparency and result-orientation in<br \/>\ngovernance.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari stated this in his address at the Roundtable of Chinese<br \/>\nand African Leaders on the last day of the Johannesburg Summit of the<br \/>\nForum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). While noting that his<br \/>\nadministration has since its inauguration in May this year, embarked upon<br \/>\nthe \u201ctask of re-focusing our governance on the real needs of the vast<br \/>\nmajority of Nigerians,\u201d the President said he was confident that China<br \/>\n\u201cwill always stand shoulder to shoulder with us in our quest to fulfill<br \/>\nthe aspirations of our people to propel them to prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the 15-year-old FOCAC, President Buhari, who commended the theme of the<br \/>\nSecond Summit, \u201cChina-Africa Progressing Together: Win-Win Cooperation for<br \/>\nCommon Development, expressed the hope that it would \u201cengender the right<br \/>\nplatform to engage Africa in all fields of human endeavours such as<br \/>\nprovision of essential infrastructure, skills development and capacity<br \/>\nbuilding, diversification of our economies and beneficiation of<br \/>\nresources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While identifying with the laudable objectives of FOCAC in cultivating,<br \/>\nfostering and deepening political, economic, technological, social and<br \/>\nother forms of relations between China and Africa, President Buhari<br \/>\npraised China for the vision behind the establishment of FOCAC as a<br \/>\nplatform for higher level Africa-China relationship.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Nigerian leader, \u201cAfrica expects Chinese investment<br \/>\nflows to the real sector of our economies to promote African enterprises.<br \/>\nOur over-riding objectives are to tackle the challenge of unemployment,<br \/>\nwealth creation, food security and industrialization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed the crucial link between political stability, security<br \/>\nand sustainable development on the African continent. \u201cWe are convinced<br \/>\nthat Africa can only leverage productively on the potentials of ties with<br \/>\nstrategic and development partners in an atmosphere of political stability<br \/>\nand security of lives and property as well as in a policy environment that<br \/>\nguarantees the sanctity of collaborative joint ventures and investment on<br \/>\nthe basis of agreed rules and regulations,\u201d President Buhari said.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing the attention of the Summit to the threat posed by global<br \/>\nchallenges such as fresh political conflicts, terrorism and other forms of<br \/>\nextremism; trans-border crimes; illegal arms trade; irregular migration<br \/>\nand cybercrimes, he said collective action was required to confront these<br \/>\nnew threats to global peace. \u201cThese are veritable threats to peace and<br \/>\nsecurity and without peace and security we cannot succeed in our<br \/>\ndevelopment objectives,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>According to President Buhari, China and Africa must work together to<br \/>\nconfront the above threats, as well as the challenge of climate change<br \/>\n\u201cfor which Africa remains badly affected with severe threats to food<br \/>\nsecurity and social stability,\u201d in addition to \u201cunacceptable levels of<br \/>\npoverty, unemployment and youth restiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President said he looks forward to the Second FOCAC (after China<br \/>\nhosted the first one in 2006) coming out with a clear and sustainable<br \/>\nroadmap for what he described as \u201cthis strategic engagement which will be<br \/>\nmutually beneficial to both Africa and China in the efforts at promoting<br \/>\nrapid socio-economic development for\u201d both partners.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0Saturday\u00a0in South Africa said that the Peoples Republic of China remains a strategic and dependable partner in his administration\u2019s determination to change the direction and content of governance,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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