In a meeting with Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, Yang said both China and Japan should enhance mutual trust and deepen cooperation in international and regional affairs.

Komura said Japan is willing to keep high-level dialogue and promote Japan-China all-round strategic and mutually beneficial relations.

In talks with Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo, Yang said that the issue of food and energy security poses a serious challenge to the world economy, China and Singapore should strengthen cooperation in the area in order to tackle the problems and join their hands to keep economic stability and development in the region.

In a meeting with Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Sahat Banditkul, who represents Thailand in the on-gong ASEAN Foreign Ministerial meeting in Singapore, Yang expressed the hope that Thailand and Cambodia will exercise utmost restraint and resolve the border dispute peacefully, saying that both Thailand and Cambodia are China's good neighbors and member states of the ASEAN, they should solve the dispute through dialogue and peaceful means.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

(Xinhua News Agency July 23, 2008)