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The Cairo-based Afro-Asian Writers Organization on Wednesday awarded "the Shield of Outstanding Contributions" to late Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, to acknowledge his great efforts to promote world peace and push forward China's national liberation.
Addressing the ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liu Xiaoming praised Zhou's contributions to developing relations between the People's Republic of China and the rest of the world and safeguarding world peace.
Liu said Zhou had paid great attention to advancing Sino-Arab relations, stressing that Sino-Egyptian ties have developing well over the past decades.
The ambassador expressed belief that Sino-Egyptian ties will become stronger in the 21st century.
The same honor was also awarded to former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, former Indonesian President Sukarno, former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Il Sung.
Zhou Enlai served as Chinese premier from 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, to 1976.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has called Zhou "a great statesman and an outstanding human being."
(Xinhua News Agency May 14, 2003)
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