Slovenian President, Nataša Pirc Musar, says her country’s excellent relationship with China is vital to its future prosperity.
Pirc Musar told CGTN’s Aljoša Milenković she wants to show what Slovenia can offer China, which is why she has sent multiple business delegations there in recent years.
She also said China had a crucial role in helping maintain global stability.
Pirc Musar told CGTN’s Aljoša Milenković she wants to show what Slovenia can offer China, which is why she has sent multiple business delegations there in recent years.
She also said China had a crucial role in helping maintain global stability.
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00:00Your Excellency, Madam President, Natalija Pirc Musar, thank you very much for speaking to CGTN.
00:06Thank you for the invitation.
00:08Let's start with your perspective, your take about collaboration or relations between Slovenia and China at this moment.
00:18Slovenia always had a good relationship with China. Basically, we are trying to cooperate with everybody.
00:24Being a small-sized country, you know, it's a necessity to be open-minded.
00:28The push for a better relationship in the last couple of years was also the decision of the Slovenian government to send many business delegations to China.
00:39Of course, we do have a deficit in bilateral trade, that's the obvious fact.
00:44But in the last couple of years, we sent four business delegations to China to see what China can offer and definitely what Slovenia can offer to China.
00:54From Slovenia's perspective, what is China's role in today's world?
00:59China's role is a big role. China is a superpower, like the United States, like some other big countries.
01:07And this is the reason why the obligation of superpowers is on a high level.
01:14But the permanent five countries of the Security Council, they bear a huge responsibility for maintaining peace and security.
01:24China is one of them. We must not discuss peace and security on this planet without China at the table. That's the fact.
01:34So this is my vision, you know, that China and the rest of the superpowers, they have to do whatever is necessary not to put us in another catastrophe.
01:45I do not want the Third World War. We currently do have 55 armed conflicts around the globe, which is the highest number after the Second World War.
01:54The respect of the international law is a must. The international law must be on the table again.
02:02We cannot neglect the basic rules that we established after the Second World War.
02:08Territorial integrity of the countries, sovereign equality of the countries, two basic values of the international law.
02:15War is prohibited by the international law.
02:20When we do discuss enemies on this planet, we only have one common one, and that's climate crisis.
02:31You know, China is doing a lot on green energy. To be honest, I was not really very pleased to hear that President Trump said that he's not going to respect the Paris Agreement.
02:44Multilateralism is something that we have to believe in because this is something which could bring prosperity and peace.
02:51And one more thing, sir. Whenever there is a conflict, war is not the tool to solve the problem. Negotiations are. Open dialogue is.