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ICRC, Xinhua join hands to promote global humanitarian cause

Xinhua, September 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Xinhua News Agency agreed Tuesday to further boost cooperation in global humanitarian affairs and strive together for lasting world peace.

The international humanitarian watchdog and the state news agency of China proclaimed their commitment in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on strategic cooperation signed by ICRC President Peter Maurer and Xinhua President Cai Mingzhao.

According to the document, the two organizations will beef up cooperation in such areas as media services, training and humanitarian affairs.

"Xinhua and the ICRC have established a good relationship of cooperation," Cai said in a meeting with Maurer, adding that the MoU should serve as a fresh start in bilateral collaboration.

Xinhua, Cai said, has a worldwide news-gathering network, which consists of over 210 branches at home and abroad, and maintains sound cooperation with other leading international news organizations.

Meanwhile, the ICRC boasts unique expertise and authority in solving humanitarian crises, and keeps productive collaboration with countries around the world, especially developing ones, he added.

Given that, he pointed out, it will be of great help to the global humanitarian cause, particularly in the developing world, that Xinhua and the ICRC deepen cooperation.

For his part, Maurer, the first ICRC president to visit the Xinhua headquarters, thanked the flagship news provider in China for its long-running support of the ICRC.

Noting that Xinhua's timely and objective coverage of international humanitarian crises is universally recognized, he said he looks forward to closer bilateral cooperation.

"I am very glad that ... we sign an agreement which will further advance our cooperation worldwide, in China and in other parts of the world," said the ICRC president.

Maurer is in Beijing at the invitation of the Chinese government for the commemorative activities marking the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Endi