China called for peace, harmony and common development in the world, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Monday.

Addressing the general debate of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly, Li said this session should serve to promote peace, harmony and common development.

"We want peaceful development," Li said. "Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another."

He pointed out that only a new security concept featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination will enable us to develop ourselves in peace and safeguard peace by development.

"We want harmonious development," Li said. "We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other."

"We want common development," the Chinese foreign minister added. "No model of development which benefits only a few countries or a small group of people is acceptable or sustainable."

He stressed that countries should cooperate with each other more closely to bring economic globalization on the track towards win-win results, benefit-sharing and common prosperity.

On the UN reforms, Li said the position of the United Nations as the core of world collective security mechanism must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way.

"China supports the efforts to enhance the UN's capacity on conflict prevention, mediation and good-office," he noted. "Development should be the mainstream of the UN reform."

Li reiterated the substantive steps Chinese President Hu Jintao announced at the Summit, saying China will push forward reforms in the area of development so as to facilitate the resolution of issues concerning development.

He stressed that the international community, its developed members in particular, should take substantive steps to help its developing members to break the vicious circle of debt, such as substantial reduction of debts, streamlining procedures and reducing conditions for debt relief.

(Xinhua News Agency September 20, 2005)