TALKS
MUSCAT, OCT 22 (OMANPRESS)
A FORMAL GLOSTON OF TALKS
BETWEEN THE OMANI MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, YOUSUF AL ALAWI ABDULLAH AND HIS VISITING CHINESE COUNTERPART,
WU XUEQIAN, WAS HELD AT GHUBRAH GUEST HOUSE, THIS MORNING.
THE TWO SIDES DISCUSSED THE LATEST EVENTS IN THE GULF AND
MIDDLE EAST, BILATERAL RELATIONS AND OTHER TOPICS OF MUTUAL INTEREST
TO OMAN AND CHINA.
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ON ARRIVAL IN MUSCAT, MK. XUEQIAN TOLD REPORTERS THAT:MI VISIT WAS IN RESPONSE TO AN INVITATION FROM MR. ALAWI FOR DISCUSSIONS ON
THE PROMOTION OF BILATERAL RELATIONS. ALTHOUGH HARDLY FIVE YEARS
OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS HAVE LINKED CHINA WITH CHAN, THE MINISTER
SAID, RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES HAVE FAST DEVELOPED 1..
MANY SPHERES, WITH POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL
COOPERATION.
HE SAID THAT CHINA WAS WILLING TO FURTHER FUSTER THESE ALLATIONS
WITH OMAN, WHOSE POINTS OF VIEW VERE IDENTICAL TO THOSE OF CHINA JA
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NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ISSUES.
ASKED ABOUT THE RECENT IRANIAN THREATS TO BLOCK THE STRAIT OF
HORMUZ, AR. XUEQIAN SAID THAT IF SUCH A THING REALLY DIS HAPPEN,
IT
WOULD NO DOUST FURTHER COMPLICATE MATTERS IN THE REGION WHICH,
HE ADDED, HIS COUNTRY WOULD RATHER WISH NOT TO SEE HAPPEN.
THE GULF REGION WAS NOW. THE FOCAL POINT OF THE WORLD, HE SAID,
ESPECIALLY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IRAQ-IRAN WAR. HE ADDED THAT CHIMA, THOUGH DISTANT GEOGRAPHICALLY FROM THE AREA, WAS WATCHING THE
SITUATION IN THE GULF AND THE MIDDLE EAST VERY CLOSELY.
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