Beijing will continue to support Gambia's development and the improvement of its people's livelihood, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting with his Gambian counterpart Mamadou Tangara in Islamabad on Wednesday.

Speaking on the sidelines as the ministers attended the Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the Pakistani capital, Wang Yi said he appreciated Gambia respecting the one-China policy since diplomatic relations had resumed between the two countries.

"The sustained, stable and healthy development of China-Gambia relations fully conforms to the long-term and fundamental interests of the two peoples," he said. 

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He added China was willing to deepen strategic communication with Banjul, "and jointly safeguard non-interference in internal affairs, the basic norm of international relations for developing countries."

Gambia's foreign minister Tangara said that relations between the two countries had gone through "ups and downs", but had "developed steadily" to make them "the most reliable and strongest partners."

"Friendship with China is the firm political decision of the Gambia." he said. "We will always stand with China and adhere to the one-China policy, and there will be no change."