On February 23, 2015, Foreign Minister Wang Yi presided over an open debate on maintaining international peace and security as President of the Security Council at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York.

Wang Yi said that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war and the founding of the UN. This is an important year worth jointly commemorating and also a historic moment to inherit the past and usher in the future. As the rotating president of the Security Council this month, China proposed to hold this open debate so as to work with all other countries to take history as a mirror and open up the future.

Wang Yi said that the great victory of the world anti-fascist war 70 years ago has changed the world profoundly. The UN was founded when the world was reflecting on the history and envisioning the future. The UN Charter declared its unswerving faith in eliminating wars and pursuing enduring peace, established basic norms for contemporary international relations, and built up the safeguard mechanism for terminating wars and keeping peace. 70 years later, the UN Charter is not out of date. We should not only review the spirit of the Charter, but also continue enriching its connotation and endowing it with new vigor and vitality in accordance with the current trends of the times and actual needs.

Wang Yi said that as an important force of the world anti-fascist alliance and the main battlefield in the East, China worked with other countries and paid tremendous national sacrifices and made great historic contributions to win the victory of the war. As a founding member of the UN and a permanent member of the Security Council, China has always firmly defended the spirit of the Charter, supported the role of the UN and maintained peace and stability of the world. President Xi Jinping proposed to establish a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation as the core, which not only inherits the purposes and principles of the Charter, but also serves as an important innovation and development.

Wang Yi said that we maintain the following views on the international relations in the 21st century. First, seek peace rather than conflict. The Security Council should formulate measures preventing conflicts in advance, stop wars timely and restore peace and reconstruction as soon as possible.

Second, seek cooperation rather than confrontation. All countries in the world, the major ones in particular, should strengthen awareness on cooperation, discard the mentality of confrontation and resolve the major issues perplexing world and regional peace and development through negotiations and cooperation among all parties.

Third, seek justice rather than hegemony. We must insist that all countries are equal regardless of their size and wealth. We should respect each country's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, respect each other's choice of development path and social system, respect the international law and the norms of international relations, and respect the diversity of civilization.

Forth, seek a win-win rather than zero-sum approach. China advocates a new thinking of win-win, multi-win and all-win, establishes a new concept of community of shared interest and common destiny, fulfills a new practice of taking both rights and responsibilities as well as upholding both morality and interests, and pursues a new prospect of valuing everyone's own culture while appreciating other's cultures to harmonize all cultures.

At last, Wang Yi expressed his hope that today's open debate can help us reveal the prelude together to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war and the founding of the UN. Let the spirit of the UN Charter enlighten the world, and let the philosophy of win-win cooperation spread all over the globe!