WEST BANK: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to boost ties between the two countries

Record ID: 564814

  • Title: WEST BANK: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to boost ties between the two countries
  • Date: 18th December 2013
  • Summary: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (DECEMBER 18, 2013) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENTIAL COMPOUND SECURITY AT COMPOUND CONVOY ARRIVING TO COMPOUND WANG YI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF CHINA, ARRIVING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL COMPOUND PALESTINIAN FLAG VARIOUS OF MEETING BETWEEN PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS, AND FOREIGN MINISTER OF CHINA BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (DECEMBER 18, 2013) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF CHURCH OF NATIVITY BELLS OF CHURCH OF NATIVITY VARIOUS OF CAR WITH CHINESE FLAG WANG YI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF CHINA, ENTERING CHURCH OF NATIVITY VARIOUS OF YI AT CHURCH OF NATIVITY CANDLES AT CHURCH FOREIGN MINISTER OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, LIGHTING CANDLE MORE OF FOREIGN MINISTER AT CHURCH
  • Embargoed: 2nd January 2014 12:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA96MFNGE2H6GOEOJS7U1YWMOU9
  • Story Text: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Ramallah on Wednesday (December 18) in West Bank city of Ramallah.
    Wang, who arrived to region on Tuesday (December 17) for a three days visit, met Abbas in his headquarters in Ramallah just after he visited the Church of Nativity.
    According to Palestinian WAFA news agency, the minister's visit is to celebrate 25 years of establishment of Palestinian-Chinese relationship.
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited China on last May.
    The Chinese foreign visit comes a week after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the region and said that Israelis and Palestinians remained committed to peace talks and were on course to wrap up a full deal by April.
    Kerry said the two sides were discussing a framework for a final-status accord to resolve the core issues at the heart of the decades-old conflict.
    Later today, Wang will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and on Thursday (December 19) he will meet his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman and Israeli President Shimon Peres.
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