Yang Jiechi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met Joanna Wronecka and Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Reform of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly, through video link Friday. 

Yang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, said China firmly upholds multilateralism and safeguards the authority of the UN. At the same time, China supports reasonable and necessary reform of the UNSC to increase the representation and voice of developing countries. 

China will work with all parties to firmly support the IGN as the main channel for pursuing Security Council reform, he added. 

Wronecka and Al-Thani, who are permanent representatives to the UN of Poland and Qatar respectively, expressed their willingness to maintain close communication with China on UNSC reform issue. They pledged to work to build consensus under the IGN framework and sustain the momentum of dialogue and negotiation.