00:00Mons Lector is a former Danish finance and foreign minister and was also president of the United Nations General Assembly.
00:07I think, from my knowledge, with the former minister Wang Yi, both meetings in New York and Beijing 10 years
00:16ago, that much of the discussion would be about how we can reach out to each other and to everyone
00:23else to establish some kind of a new international order based in the United Nations framework.
00:30And what's in this for Scandinavia?
00:35Well, Scandinavia has always been trading a lot with the rest of the world.
00:41And we were among the first countries to recognize the new China in 1950.
00:49And there's been a lot of economic interaction between Denmark and China, Scandinavia and China in the past 30, 40
00:58years.
00:59Why is China placing renewed emphasis on the relationship with the Nordic countries?
01:08Well, I think China as a big country has, in some sense, the same interests as we have as small
01:16countries to try to connect in each and every way links between the different parts of the world to try
01:25to establish this more durable new order.
01:29So we need so much in this time of international chaos and lack of trust on international agreements and conventions.
01:40And I wonder what would a successful outcome of this visit look like?
01:46Well, I think there will be, of course, questions where we have very much the same interests, not least the
01:55green transition where China is making so huge and important progress to the benefit of the whole world.
02:05And we are very much engaged in our part of the world also to push forward this green transition.
02:11I guess that will be part of the discussion, how we can cooperate actually to live up to the commitments
02:18we made 10 and 11 years ago and the 17 goals of sustainable development and the Paris Climate Agreement.
02:25Thank you very much.
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