Xi to give address at China-Africa COVID-19 summit

President Xi Jinping will preside over a special summit on Africa and China's joint fight against COVID-19 on Wednesday and will deliver a keynote speech, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying ...
by China Daily
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Zeng Kerong (second from right), general manager of HNRB's East African Regional Center, and Ababu Namwamba (center), chief administrative secretary of Kenya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, pose for a photo at a handover ceremony for medical and protective materials donated by Chinese companies in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, on June 11, 2020. (From left: Solomon Kitungu, principal secretary of Kenya's State Department of Transport; Susan Mochache, principal secretary of Kenya's Ministry of Health; Ababu Namwamba; Zeng Kerong; Zhuo Wu, chairman of Kenya Chinese Chamber of Commerce). [Photo by Liu Hongjie/China Daily]

President Xi Jinping will preside over a special summit on Africa and China's joint fight against COVID-19 on Wednesday and will deliver a keynote speech, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Tuesday.

The summit was jointly initiated by China, South Africa, the rotating presidency of the African Union, and Senegal, co-chair of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, and will be held via video link, Hua said.

Key leaders from African countries will attend the summit, she said, adding United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will also participate.

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