Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with Mohamed Salem Ould Merzouk, Mauritania's minister of foreign affairs, who came to Chinese capital Beijing on Wednesday to attend the 10th ministerial meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum. 

Wang said that China will continue to firmly support Mauritania in pursuing a development path suited to its own national conditions and oppose external forces interfering in Mauritania's internal affairs. 

China is ready to continue to provide assistance within its capacity for Mauritania's economic and social development and to cooperate closely with Mauritania to consolidate and expand China-Arab collective cooperation, said Wang.

Merzouk said Mauritania firmly adheres to the one-China principle and is ready to work with China to push forward the continuous development of Arab-China and Africa-China relations, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.