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Help on mine-clearing

A HUMANITARIAN mine-clearing training course for Afghanistan and Iraq, sponsored by the Chinese government, was inaugurated yesterday in Nanjing, capital of eastern China's Jiangsu Province.

About 40 military officers from Afghanistan and Iraq were on the two-month course at the University of Science and Technology of the People's Liberation Army in Nanjing, China's foreign ministry said.

The ministry said in a press release that the course showed that the Chinese government attached great importance to friendly cooperative relations with Afghanistan and Iraq.

It also showed the positive attitude of the Chinese government to assist the two countries' economic recovery and social reconstruction.

In 10 years, China had trained about 300 mine-clearers for 15 countries and offered various kinds of humanitarian mine-clearing assistance for nearly 20 countries, said the press release.

China will also donate mine detection and clearing equipment to the two countries when the training is over.



 

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