Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi to meet Hong Kong leader before mediation body launch
Representatives from nearly 60 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America expected to attend the Landmark convention
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi will arrive in Hong Kong on Thursday afternoon and meet the chief executive ahead of a ceremony for the establishment of an intergovernmental mediation organisation in the city, the Post has learned.
On Friday morning, Wang is scheduled to attend the signing ceremony of the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Wan Chai.
In an opinion piece to be published in the Post on Thursday, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok has stressed that the new body will help Hong Kong cope with challenges that arise when “hostile external forces are attempting to de-internationalise and de-functionalise” the city.
Wang, who is the country’s foreign minister and a member of the Politburo, the Communist Party’s principal decision-making body, is expected to meet more officials and legal representatives following the signing ceremony.
“After the full-day event [on Friday], Wang will join a dinner hosted by the Department of Justice,” a second source said, adding that the dinner would be attended by Lee, senior government officials, members of the Executive Council and representatives from the legal sector, among others.