Chinese foreign minister to visit eight Pacific Island countries

BEIJING, May 24 (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit eight Pacific Island countries from May 26 to June 4 including the Solomon Islands, a ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
The other seven countries are Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, spokesman Wang Wenbin told a regular press briefing.
Reporting by Martin Quin Pollard, writing by Yew Lun Tian, editing by Andrew Heavens
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