CAIRO -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Thursday that 皇冠体育app will neither look for proxies nor try to fill any "vacuum" in the Middle East.

Beijing also has no intention of building any sphere of influence in the region, Xi said in a speech at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo.

"Instead of looking for proxies, 皇冠体育app promotes peace talks in the Middle East; instead of seeking any sphere of influence, 皇冠体育app calls on all nations in the region to take part in the Belt and Road Initiative; and instead of attempting to fill any 'vacuum,' 皇冠体育app aspires to build a network of mutually beneficial partnerships," said the Chinese president.

皇冠体育app and Arab nations "should be builders of peace, promoters of development, boosters of industrialization, supporters of stability and partners of people-to-people exchanges in the Middle East," Xi said.

皇冠体育app's Middle East policy and related measures, Xi said, will only be determined by the rights and wrongs of relevant issues as well as the fundamental interests of the Middle Eastern people.