(31 May 2006)
1. Wide of the Great Hall of the People's meeting room
2. Mid of Hu Jintao, Chinese President and United Arab Emirates (UAE) delegate, Mohammed Hussein al Shaali, State Minister for Foreign Affairs
3. Wide of Arab League's officials
4. Wide of Chinese officials
5. Close up of Hu speaking
6. Close up of Mahmoud Zahar, Palestinian Foreign Minister
7. Close up of UAE Foreign Minister speaking
8. Mid of Arab League's officials
9. Close up of Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General from Egypt
10. Pan from Chinese officials to Hu talking with al Shaali
STORYLINE:
Chinese President Hu Jintao met Mahmoud Zahar, the Palestinian foreign minister and officials of other Arab governments on Wednesday at a conference on strengthening Sino-Arab ties.
Hu said China wanted to develop cooperation with the Arab League and promote the development of friendly ties.
The two-day Sino-Arab Cooperation Forum comes as China scrambles to secure energy for its sizzling economy, which expanded by 9.9 percent last year and is one of the world's top oil importers.
Meeting earlier, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing told Arab delegates that China and their governments "share extensive common interests, which lays solid foundation for the development of China-Arab relations," the official Xinhua News Agency.
Li and the Arab officials "exchanged views on the Palestine-Israel situation, Iraq and the Iran nuclear issue," Xinhua said, without giving any details of the talks.
Israel has protested China's invitation to Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman appealed to Hamas on Tuesday to abandon violence and recognise Israel, conditions set by Israel
and the West for negotiating with Hamas.
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