Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing highlighted in his signed article China's commitment to world peace, development and cooperation.

"China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development," said Li in the article titled "peace, development and cooperation.

Describing peace, development and cooperation as the irresistible trend of the times, Li said as new situations and new contradictions keep cropping up without letup, maintaining world peace and promoting common development remains the mission of all countries in the world.

Li said the international community has arrived at a deeper understanding that it must secure peace and promote development through cooperation.

China needs cooperation to maintain common security, realize common development and promote inter-civilization harmony and coexistence, Li said.

Li said the security problems of various kinds have become more transnational, interrelated and sudden in occurrence. "Only through international cooperation can we effectively address the common security problems facing all countries."

"The Cold-War mentality, unilateralism and the worship of military might will lead us nowhere," said the foreign minister.

Li said cooperation can also help redress the imbalance in global development, effectively ward off economic and financial risks, and enable countries to seize the opportunities brought by globalization to realize common development.

(Xinhua News Agency August 23, 2005)