Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing met with his Palestinian
counterpart Mahmud al-Zahar in Beijing on Thursday.
The meeting between Li and al-Zahar came in the wake of the
second Ministerial Meeting of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum,
which concluded Thursday afternoon.
Li also met with foreign ministers or other officials from
Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Aman, Qatar and Egypt.
The two-day ministerial meeting was attended by delegates from
China and 22 Arab countries, who inked a communiqué, an action plan
for 2006-2008, an environmental cooperation plan and a memorandum
of understanding for a meeting between Chinese and Arab
entrepreneurs.
(Xinhua News Agency June 2, 2006)
