China’s FM to arrive for joint strategic plan’s inking

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10/23/2009

China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is scheduled to make an official two-day visit to the Philippines on Oct. 28 and 29, the Chinese Embassy in Manila said yesterday.

During his visit, Yang and his Philippine counterpart, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, will sign a joint action plan for strategic cooperation and a consular agreement that the embassy said are “expected to further boost China-Philippines strategic relations and enhance their close friendship.”

The 59-year-old Shanghai-born Chinese foreign minister has a PhD in history and became foreign minister in 2007.

A career diplomat, Yang’s first stint was as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2001, and the second time from 2005 to 2007.

In between, he was Beijing’s ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2005.

He entered the foreign service in 1975 as a staff member and second secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Department of Translation and Interpretation.

From then on, he gradually moved up the ranks, starting as second secretary at his embassy in the US in 1983, to eventually becoming foreign minister. PNA

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