Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed meets Chinese President Xi Jinping

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met with Chinese President Xi Jinping today ahead of the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to be held from April 25 to 27 in Beijing. While stressing that Ethiopia is an important partner of China in Africa, President Xi said both China and Ethiopia are developing countries that have relied on their own efforts to pioneer development paths that suited their own specific national conditions. He said China has always respected African countries and never imposed its own will on them, adding that African countries think highly of China’s cooperation principles he put forward at the Beijing summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, and that they fully agree on advancing Belt and Road international cooperation under the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.