{"id":298309,"date":"2020-12-30T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=298309"},"modified":"2020-12-30T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:33:35","slug":"chinese-foreign-minister-to-visit-nigeria-january-agenda-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=298309","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Foreign Minister to visit Nigeria January, agenda revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China will be in Nigeria on an official visit from January 4 to 5, 2021.<br \/>\nThe country\u2019s Embassy in Nigeria confirmed this on Wednesday via its Twitter handle, @China_emb_ng.<br \/>\nThe visit was at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, it disclosed.<br \/>\nYi, the State Councilor, will also visit Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Seychelles, and Tanzania.<br \/>\nChinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Wang Wenbin made the announcement at a press briefing.<br \/>\nWenbin said Yi\u2019s trip was in line with the Asian giant\u2019s 30-year tradition of choosing Africa as the destination of all Foreign Ministers\u2019 first overseas visit each year.<br \/>\nThis he noted affirms China\u2019s close attention to its ties with African countries and friendship with the people.<br \/>\nWenbin commended the close cooperation by the two sides in fighting coronavirus.<br \/>\nDuring his visits, Yi would deepen communication with his hosts to strengthen key agreements, as well as facilitate economic recovery in Africa amid the pandemic.<br \/>\nWith 2021 being the last year for the implementation of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Action Plan (2019-2021), Yi and his colleagues will exchange views on a new round of forum.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China will be in Nigeria on an official visit from January 4 to 5, 2021. The country\u2019s Embassy in Nigeria confirmed this on Wednesday via its Twitter handle, @China_emb_ng. The visit was at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, it disclosed. Yi, the State Councilor, will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,375,243],"class_list":["post-298309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-china","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}