BEIJING – China Monday called upon the international community to furtherstrengthen cooperation and jointly fight terrorism.
“The Chinese side advocates that the international community should furtherstrengthen cooperation and jointly fight terrorism,” Chinese ForeignMinistry’s Spokesperson, Geng Shuang said during his regular briefing whileresponding to a question regarding the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi bythe US special forces in a weekend raid near the northeastern Syrian cityof Idlib.
The spokesperson said terrorism is a common enemy of the internationalcommunity and the Chinese side has always opposed terrorism in all itsforms and has actively participated in the international fight againstterrorism.
“The Chinese side believes that counter-terrorism should treat both thesymptoms and the root causes and work hard to eliminate the breeding groundfor terrorism,” he added.
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