The President of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, participated on Friday in the Arab-Chinese summit, which was hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the presence of Crown Prince, Mohamed Ben Salmen Ben Abdulaziz Al Saud, President of the Republic of China, Xi Jinping, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abu Al-Ghait Al-Amin, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Seddiq Al-Kabeer.
Al-Manfi stressed during his speech that the rapid economic and political developments in our world require more flexibility in defining the concept of economic partnerships, especially in light of the importance that China attaches to its relations with the Arab world, and the resulting development in Arab-Chinese relations since the conference of Arab-Chinese cooperation in 2004.
Al-Manfi explained that the Arab countries have become China’s seventh economic partner, in terms of the volume of trade exchange, and the first supplier of crude oil to the Chinese economy, which has made great strides since the mid-nineties of the last century, and has become an example to follow and an essential engine for the global economy, adding that Libya is looking forward to diversify its partnerships and benefit from Chinese expertise and capabilities, in order to rebuild the Libyan economy and infrastructure in the country.
The President of the Presidential Council concluded his speech by saying that Libya will celebrate, after a few days, its seventy-first independence anniversary, in order for the efforts made to reconcile and build confidence between the political parties and the components of the Libyan people to succeed, in order to get the country out of its political crisis and end the transitional stages, through presidential elections, that its results would be accepted by all the Libyan people.