BEIJING (Reuters) -China held its stance on 3 disputed islands within the Gulf on Monday regardless of Tehran’s anger at Beijing for describing the Iran-controlled islands as an issue to be resolved with the United Arab Emirates.In a remark final week, China expressed reinforce for the efforts of the UAE to succeed in a “non violent resolution” to the problem of the islands – the Better Tunb, the Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa.The islands, claimed via the UAE and Iran, were held via Tehran since 1971 after the withdrawal of British forces from the Gulf.In a unprecedented display of anger towards its greatest buying and selling spouse, the Iranian overseas ministry on Sunday summoned the Chinese language ambassador to Iran to protest China’s “repeated reinforce” for the UAE’s “baseless claims”.”Taking into account the strategic cooperation between Tehran and Beijing, it’s anticipated that the Chinese language govt will revise its stance in this topic,” the Iranian overseas ministry mentioned.China’s overseas ministry on Monday repeated its name for Iran and the UAE to get to the bottom of their variations via discussion and session, describing China’s stance at the topic as “constant”.”The related contents of the China-UAE Joint Commentary are in keeping with China’s place,” mentioned Mao Ning at a standard press briefing when requested about Iran’s protest, providing no revision of Beijing’s stance.She added that China and Iran had a powerful courting, and that China hooked up nice significance to the improvement in their strategic partnership.China angered Iran in December 2022 when it issued a joint remark with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations that referred to as for efforts to get to the bottom of the problem of the 3 islands.That remark went on to worry the wish to “be sure the non violent nature of the Iranian nuclear programme”, which was once no longer discussed in the most recent remark with the UAE.(Reporting via Liz Lee and Ryan Woo; Modifying via Ros Russell and Alex Richardson)
