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Special envoy to attend inauguration ceremony

President Xi Jinping's special envoy and Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee Peng Qinghua will attend the inauguration ceremony of Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah in Namibian capital Windhoek on Friday, the Foreign Ministry announced. The 72-year-old Nandi-Ndaitwah won Namibia's presidential election held in November last year and became Namibia's first female president. This year marks the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Namibia.

FM to attend trilateral ministerial meeting

Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the 11th China-Japan-ROK Trilateral Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Tokyo on Saturday. During his visit to Japan, Wang and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will co-chair the Sixth China-Japan High-Level Economic Dialogue, the Foreign Ministry said in an announcement. Wang attended the 10th meeting between the three countries' foreign ministers in Busan, the Republic of Korea in November 2023.

UNITED STATES

Trump to release files on JFK assassination

President Donald Trump was expected to release about 80,000 pages of material related to the 1963 assassination of President John F.Kennedy on Tuesday. Kennedy's murder has been attributed to a sole gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The Justice Department and other federal government bodies reaffirmed that conclusion in the intervening decades. But polls show many US people believe his death was a result of a conspiracy.

China Daily - Agencies