China ready to receive Libya opposition envoys
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June 10, 2011, Friday
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CHINA said yesterday that envoys from Libya's main opposition group would be visiting the country soon.
Chen Xiaodong, director general of the Foreign Ministry's West Asian and North African Affairs Department, said China was "ready to receive a visit" from representatives of the National Transitional Council "in the near future."
He did not give a date for the visit.
China stayed on the sidelines for the first few months after the revolt against Moammar Gadhafi's government erupted in mid-February, but it has stepped up efforts to persuade the two sides to seek a settlement.
Last week, Chinese diplomats in Qatar met the leader of the transitional council. That was followed on Wednesday by a meeting in China of Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Libyan counterpart, Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi, who was apparently dispatched to Beijing to reassert the Libyan government's influence.
"We believe what is most pressing now is that relevant parties agree to a cease-fire as soon as possible so as to avert an even greater humanitarian disaster, and resolve the Libyan crisis through dialogue and negotiation and other political means," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular briefing yesterday.
Hong said China maintains that Libya's sovereignty and independence and "the independent choice of the Libyan people" should be respected. "We will keep in touch with the relevant parties in Libya and make concerted efforts with the international community to push for a political resolution to the Libya crisis."
When fighting erupted in Libya, China dispatched military transport planes and arranged chartered boats to evacuate an estimated 30,000 Chinese working there.
Chen Xiaodong, director general of the Foreign Ministry's West Asian and North African Affairs Department, said China was "ready to receive a visit" from representatives of the National Transitional Council "in the near future."
He did not give a date for the visit.
China stayed on the sidelines for the first few months after the revolt against Moammar Gadhafi's government erupted in mid-February, but it has stepped up efforts to persuade the two sides to seek a settlement.
Last week, Chinese diplomats in Qatar met the leader of the transitional council. That was followed on Wednesday by a meeting in China of Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Libyan counterpart, Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi, who was apparently dispatched to Beijing to reassert the Libyan government's influence.
"We believe what is most pressing now is that relevant parties agree to a cease-fire as soon as possible so as to avert an even greater humanitarian disaster, and resolve the Libyan crisis through dialogue and negotiation and other political means," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular briefing yesterday.
Hong said China maintains that Libya's sovereignty and independence and "the independent choice of the Libyan people" should be respected. "We will keep in touch with the relevant parties in Libya and make concerted efforts with the international community to push for a political resolution to the Libya crisis."
When fighting erupted in Libya, China dispatched military transport planes and arranged chartered boats to evacuate an estimated 30,000 Chinese working there.
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