China hopes to see national stability and social order restored soon in Egypt, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
The Chinese embassy in Egypt said on Tuesday that the embassy staff are ready to help Chinese nationals who are fleeing from the unrest-hit Libya.
Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong said in Beijing on Feb 20 that China was ready to promote friendly cooperation with Turkmenistan.
China on Feb 11 urged the United Nations and Security Council to give more attention to Africa and called on the international community to provide greater support to the region in order to maintain peace and security.
The eyes of the world are now on Egypt. After 18 days of mass demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of Egyptian youths, Hosni Mubarak resigned his presidency and handed command of the country to the military.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Friday called on the West to lift sanctions they imposed on Zimbabwe while Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe applauded the Asian giant for its continued political and economic support.
China believes that Egypt has sufficient wisdom and capability to overcome difficulties and realize national stability and development, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his Egyptian counterpart in a telephone conversation Thursday.
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi kicks off his Africa trip on Wednesday, continuing the more than two-decade-long tradition of China's top diplomat visiting the continent around the start of year.
China can play a positive role in revitalizing southern Sudan after voters there overwhelmingly decided to establish Africa's newest country, analysts said.
Cambodian and Thai troops clashed briefly on Monday for a fourth straight day, Phnom Penh officials said, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for "maximum restraint" in a border dispute that has claimed six lives.
Two planes, carrying a total of 480 Chinese nationals who were stranded in Egypt, took off from the Cairo airport early Tuesday, and are heading for China, according to the Chinese embassy in Egypt.
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An Air China plane with 265 stranded Chinese travelers aboard took off from Cairo, the Egyptian capital, at 7:34 am Tuesday.