RAMALLAH, Palestine, Nov 11 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestine Institute for National Security Research (PINSR), organised a symposium, on the role of China in the Middle East.
The symposium, in Palestine’s West Bank city of Ramallah, highlighted the growing role of China in the Middle East, in light of its policy for the region, and China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Addressing the audience, Guo Wei, director of Office of the People’s Republic of China to Palestine, said, Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has a vision for the region and his four-point proposal to help solve the Palestinian-Israeli issue was met with great enthusiasm by leaders in the region.
The proposal was put forward by the Chinese leader in a meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, during the latter’s visit to Beijing in July, 2017.
In the proposal, Xi reiterated China’s firm support to a political settlement of the Palestinian issue, on the basis of the two-state solution, and the establishment of an independent and fully sovereign Palestine, along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Chinese leader also highlighted the importance of enhancing international coordination, to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine, while calling for supporting Palestine’s economic development within the framework of the BRI.
On relations between Palestine and China, Abbas Zaki, head of Fatah party’s Commissioner General of the Arab and Chinese Affairs, said, the historic relationship between Fatah party and China is unwavering, particularly under the development of the BRI.
The symposium explored China’s political and economic roles in the region, allowing the audience, who were mostly students of Chinese language and executive personnel in the Palestinian Authority, who received various training in China, to understand the Chinese perspective towards the region.
The PINSR is considered a young think tank that conducts policy researches and provides advice to Palestinian decision makers.– NNN-WAFA