Chinese 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 here 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 Dec. 14,1960. Bilateral
trade reached 19.64 million U.S. dollars in 2005.
