Remarks With Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Before Their Meeting
Remarks
Michael R. Pompeo
Secretary of State
Diaoyutai, Beijing
October 8, 2018
SCRETARY POMPEO: Thank you, Foreign Minister Wang. Thank you for welcoming me to Beijing. I did indeed want to come here to have discussions (inaudible) the issues that you've characterized we have a fundamental disagreement. We have grave concerns about the actions that China has taken, and I look forward to having the opportunity to discuss each of those today because this is an incredibly important relationship.
I do want to share with you my visit with Chairman Kim Jong-un yesterday and the progress we've made, and to make sure that we are working together on our joint mission that we've talked about before: the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. So I know we'll have good, candid, frank conversations with respect to that issue and the broader set of relations between our two countries.
I regret that the Strategic Dialogue between our two countries was something that you all chose not to undertake. It would have been an important opportunity for us to have a discussion about these longer-term, important issues that present opportunities for the people of our two countries.
So thank you for hosting me today. I look forward to our conversation.
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