Xinhua News Agency, Riyadh, December 9th (Reporter Ni Siyi and Wu Zhongmin) On the afternoon of December 9th local time, the first China-Arab States Summit was held at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The summit issued the "Riyadh Declaration of the First China-Arab Summit", announcing that China and the Arab states have agreed to make ev
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