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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) Womens Sean Taylor Jersey , Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani (L) and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, meet the press after the 1st China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Dialogue, in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 26, 2017. (XinhuaYan Yan)
BEIJING Authentic Ryan Kerrigan Jersey , Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Foreign ministers from China, Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday agreed to discuss ways to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan.


"In the long run, through Afghanistan, we will gradually connect the CPEC with the China-Central and Western Asia Economic Corridor," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters after China-Afghanistan-Pakistan foreign ministers' meeting in Beijing.


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"With regard to specific cooperation projects and ways of cooperation, we will determine through tripartite consultations on an equal footing," he said.


Improving livelihoods in border areas may be an entry point for the extension, said Wang, noting that the three parties agreed to promote wider connectivity under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative.


The CPEC is a network of highways Ryan Kerrigan Jersey , railways, pipelines and optical cables, and a flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative, currently under construction throughout Pakistan.


The 3,000-km-long corridor starts from China's Kashgar and ends at Pakistan's Gwadar, connecting the Silk Road Economic Belt in the north and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in the south.


Wang said the CPEC has not targeted at any third party Sean Taylor Jersey , but hopes to bring benefits to the entire region and become an important driving force for regional integration.


"The CPEC is an economic cooperation project and should not be politicized," he said, noting that it has