NAIROBI Alex Mack Jersey , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Somalia Qian Jian on Wednesday said China will strongly support the Horn of Africa nation's peace and reconstruction process as part of the bilateral pact between the two countries.
Qian said Beijing had made positive contribution to Somalia in various fields including economic and social development to assist the country in acquiring political stability.
"The Chinese government has built over 80 infrastructural projects like hospitals, stadiums and roads to ease the burden of the Somali people. We have dispatched a medical team of more than 400 members in 13 batches to the country since 1991," the envoy said in Nairobi during celebrations to mark the 68th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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Speaker of the House of People, Mohamed Osman Jawari, congratulated the Chinese government on the occasion and shared his country's best wishes to the Far East nation.
"Relations between Somalia and China commenced in 1960 after we attained independence Devonta Freeman Jersey , and ever since we signed our first official trade agreement in 1963, the Somali people have been beneficiaries of Chinese benevolence in the areas of maternal and child care as well as other infrastructural largess," Jawari said.
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CAIRO, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Egypt welcomed on Sunday the agreement between Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements to end a decade-long political rift, Egypt's official MENA news agency said.
MENA said that Egypt welcomes the stances of the Fatah and Hamas movements regarding Egyptian efforts to unite the Palestinian people and end the current division.
According to MENA, Egypt would continue contacts with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian factions to serve the Palestinian interests and cause.
Repeated reconciliation attempts have failed since the Hamas militants drove forces loyal to Abbas out of the Gaza Strip in 2007 Julio Jones Jersey , a year after defeating Fatah in parliament elections.
The takeover led to rival governments, with Hamas controlling Gaza and Abbas in charge of autonomous enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Earlier in the day, Islamic Hamas movement, which rules Gaza Ito Smith Jersey , agreed with President Abbas's Fatah party to reconcile, form a unity government and prepare for the general parliamentary and presidential elections.
The Hamas announcement came following eight days of a dialogue in Cairo between senior Egyptian security intelligence officials and a senior Hamas delegation, headed by the top leaders of the movement, including Ismail Haneya Deadrin Senat Jersey , Hamas politburo chief.
On Friday, Afata delegation joined the reconciliation dialogue that Egypt has been sponsoring.