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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
China backs French plan, calls Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘central issue’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Chinese official tells Abbas that Beijing supports France’s peace initiative and views the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as the “central issue in the region.”
Gong Xiaosheng, China’s special envoy to the Middle East, makes the comments during a meeting with Abbas today in Ramallah, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Xiaosheng tells Abbas that there is “complete coordination” among the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) on the need to promote peace, and in viewing the conflict as the “central issue in the region.”
— Dov Lieber
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