BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 10th ministerial meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum and deliver a keynote speech, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Sunday.

As agreed by China and the Arab side, the meeting will be held on May 30 in Beijing. Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese foreign minister, will co-chair the meeting with Mohamed Salem Ould Merzouk, Mauritania's minister of foreign affairs, cooperation and Mauritanians abroad.

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Foreign ministers or representatives of the Arab states and secretary-general of the League of Arab States will attend the meeting.