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Article: Interview: Arab League chief highly values China-Africa CooperationForum
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- October 19, 2006
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Interview: Arab League chief highly values China-Africa
Cooperation Forum
by Lin Jianyang, Guo Chunju, Chen Yao
CAIRO, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr
Moussa said on Thursday that the China-Africa and China-Arab
cooperation forums were "necessary and instrumental mechanisms" for
boosting African and Arab cooperation with China.
The AL chief made the remarks in a written interview with Xinhua
on the eve of a summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
(FOCAC) in Beijing.
For one thing, FOCAC has helped the two sides raise the two-way
trade volume, which increased from 10 billion U.S. dollars in 2000 to
nearly 40 billion dollars in 2005, said Moussa.
Of the ...