| Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki Going to China for Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation |
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| Thursday,September 27,2007 Posted: 08:32 BJT(0032 GMT) |
| From:ke Article type:Original |
Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya, left here for China to attend Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation with leaders of other over 40 African countries on Nov. 1.
Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya, left here for China to attend Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation with leaders of other over 40 African countries on Nov. 1.
The Summit would provide an opportunity to Kenya to seek after development projects in China especially the greater support of China to agricultural projects. China had even expressed the willing to assist Kenya to establish an agricultural technical test center, other issues would be negotiated at the summit such as more Chinese enterprises going to Kenya to invest in agricultural infrastructure construction, supply of agriculture production equipment and processing of agricultural products.
China committed to maintain granting preferential loans to Africa in the coming 3 years to improve the development capacity of African. Other contents of the Summit included China's assistance to African development and exemption of credit, establishment of a visiting mechanism on African culture, cooperation in education, medical treatment and support of sanitation. The Summit would review the friendship and cooperation between China and Africa since the independence of New China in the past 50 years, and would set up an action plan to implement the all-round China-Africa cooperation in the coming 3 years so as to push forward the friendship, peaceful cooperation and development between China and Africa.
Kenya and China had closer bilateral relations and signed several bilateral cooperation agreements.
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