Nasser Bouchiba, president of the Afrfrica-China Cooperation Association fofor Development in Morocco, said, "President Xi's speech invited participating countries to defefend world peace through mutual trurust and respect, consultation and solidarity." According to him, Xi proposed specifific measures aimed at protecting regional peace, promoting mutual cooperation in trade and investment, infrfrastruructure construruction, supply chains, technological innovation and other areas to "deal with theglobal epidemic and trends that threaten world peace, including unilateralism andprotectionism, and declining economic globalization among other problems".