December 4, 2021
Your Excellency Aisata Tall Sall, Foreign Minister of Senegal and Chair of this Conference;
Your Excellency Wang Yi, State Councilor of the PRC and co-chair of this Conference;
Your Excellencies Heads of Delegation and Honorable Ministers,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Allow me first to join previous speakers to express the profound appreciation of my delegation to the Governments of Senegal and China for organizing the 8th FOCAC Ministerial Conference and for the warm hospitality accorded to us.