Chinese envoy to attend independence ceremony of South Sudan
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Xinhua, July 5, 2011
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President Hu Jintao will send a special envoy to South Sudan for the independence celebrations of the new country later this week, the foreign ministry announced on Tuesday.
Jiang Weixin, minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, will go to Juba, capital of the new state, on Saturday, ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a press briefing.
South Sudan voted to secede from north in a referendum in January, which is part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 to end two decades of civil war in the largest Africa nation.
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