{"id":79451,"date":"2020-06-18T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79451"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:13:17","slug":"covid-19-extraordinary-china-africa-summit-chairs-by-chinese-pres-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79451","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Extraordinary China-Africa Summit chairs by Chinese Pres Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled-10-copy.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled-10-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING, June 18 (NNN-XINHUA) \u2013 Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday chaired the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19 in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The summit, held via video link, was jointly proposed by China, South Africa, the rotating chair of the African Union (AU), and Senegal, the co-chair of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders of African countries, including members of the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government and rotating chairs of major African sub-regional organizations, and the chairperson of the AU Commission, attended the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secretary-general of the United Nations and the director-general of the World Health Organization also attended the meeting as special guests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xi promised to give priority to African countries once COVID-19 vaccines are ready to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccines for the deadly coronavirus are still being worked on without an effective result just yet, although other forms of treatments are being tested on patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is also at the forefront of working on a vaccine for the virus which first broke out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Xi is said to have told the China-Africa summit that his country will ensure that African countries don\u2019t get muscled out in accessing vaccines when available. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 18 (NNN-XINHUA) \u2013 Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday chaired the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19 in Beijing. The summit, held via video link, was jointly proposed by China, South Africa, the rotating chair of the African Union (AU), and Senegal, the co-chair of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":79454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}