China hopes Syria can show “flexibility” in promoting peace talks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday in a meeting with an adviser to Syria’s president, adding that China would help with its reconstruction. “China hopes the Syrian side can seize the opportunity, display flexibility, and promote dialogue and negotiation to achieve substantive results,” Wang said, according to a statement from China’s foreign ministry. China will put forth its own effort for this,” Wang said, without elaborating on what those efforts would be. Shaaban welcomed China playing a greater role in Syria’s political resolution process, the ministry said. China hopes a peaceful Middle East will also help end the involvement of ethnic Uighurs, a Muslim people from the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, with militant groups in Syria and Iraq.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 24, 2017 10:07 UTC