The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that Sun Bigan will succeed
Wang Shijie as China's new special envoy on Middle East issues from
April 1.
Sun, the former Chinese ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and
Iran, is a senior diplomat familiar with Middle East affairs.
Sun will continue to contact the relevant parties on Middle East
issues and the international community, promote consultations and
dialogues, and make unremitting efforts to achieve positive
progress in the peace process, the ministry's spokesman Qin Gang
said.
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(Xinhua News Agency March 30, 2006)
