President Hu Jintao said China would support Somali interim
government's efforts to seek peace and reconstruction, urging the
UN Security Council to grant it more support and assistance.
Hu made this remark on Tuesday during his meeting with Somali
President Abdullahi Yusuf.
Yusuf said Somalia was working on a reconstruction and
development plan and hoped to expand friendly cooperation with
China in political, economic and social sectors.
Yusuf arrived in Beijing on Thursday for the two-day landmark
Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation which
closed on Sunday afternoon.
China and Somalia established diplomatic relations on December
14,1960. Bilateral trade reached US$19.64 million in 2005.
(Xinhua News Agency November 7, 2006)
