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Palestinian leader meets Chinese President

CHINA: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Beijing on Monday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to follow him later this week.

Abbas's three-day trip -- the first by a Middle Eastern leader since Xi took office in March -- ends Tuesday, overlapping with a five-day visit to China by Netanyahu that begins in Shanghai on Monday and ends in the capital.

Chinese media have called Abbas' trip a state visit, while officials describe Netanyahu's as an "official visit".

Beijing has traditionally remained distant from Middle Eastern affairs, though in recent years it has begun to take a more active diplomatic role.

After a full military welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People, Xi told Abbas he had "maintained the strategic choice of peace" and helped "building a country which has received the wide respect and support of the Palestinian people and international society".

Abbas said: "I appreciate China's high position in the world nowadays. In recent years all the Chinese governments have adopted wise policies that have effectively had benefits and avoided harm".

The two sides signed cooperation agreements on economic technical cooperation and cultural exchange, details of which were not immediately available.

Ahead of his visit, Abbas told China's Xinhua news agency that he planned to discuss obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian talks and ask Beijing to urge Israel to end policies that obstructed the Palestinian economy.

AFP

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