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December 18, 2007.
Chinese Association for Friendship with Central Asian States founded in Beijing
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On 18 December 2007 the constituent assembly of the Chinese Association for Friendship with Central Asian States was held in Beijing. The Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Ismail Amat was invited to take the post of the Association’s Honourable Chairman, and the former SCO Executive Secretary, former Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Deguang was elected the Association’s Chairman. The Chinese Association for Friendship with Central Asian States was founded on the initiative of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. It is meant to facilitate people-to-people exchanges between China and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, strengthen the social basis of centuries-old friendship between China and the five states of Central Asia, and promote common development and prosperity.
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