BAKU -- China's Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf (Phase I) were inscribed on the World Heritage List as a natural site on Friday at the ongoing 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee in Azerbaijan's capital here.

"This inscription demonstrates the firm commitment of China to conservation of the world heritage. It will set an example for subsequent sites for the nomination of East Asian-Australasian Flyway," said Shen Yang, ambassador and permanent delegate of China to the UNESCO, following the announcement of the decision.

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BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday congratulated Mohamed Ould Ghazouani on his election as the president of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

Pointing out that China and Mauritania enjoy a traditional friendship, Xi noted in his congratulatory message that the two sides currently maintain solid political trust, with deepened and expanded practical cooperation in various fields and strengthened people-to-people exchanges.

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GENEVA -- A senior Chinese diplomat has stressed here that stability and security are indispensable to development and enjoyment of human rights, saying only under overall social stability can China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region achieve great progresses.

"Freedom of religion, cultural rights, (and) the right to use spoken and written languages of all ethnic groups are guaranteed by a host of measures," said Chen Xu, head of the Chinese mission to UN at Geneva.

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CARACAS -- Ongoing talks between the Venezuelan government and the opposition have not failed, despite the latter's refusal to set a new date, a senior official said on Thursday.

"Dialogue has not failed, I do not think it has failed," Diosdado Cabello, president of Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly, said of the talks hosted by Norway.

However, he said that "every time there are attempts at dialogue, the opposition sectors are the ones who leave" the negotiating table. Enditem

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