Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing on Thursday talked on the telephone
with his Nigerian counterpart Joy Ogwu about the five Chinese
telecommunication workers kidnapped in southern Nigeria, the
Foreign Ministry said.
The five Chinese workers from southwest China's Sichuan
Telecommunication Company were abducted by a group of gunmen on
January 5 at their rented residence in the state capital Port
Harcourt.
A crisis management team composed of staff from the Chinese
embassy in Abuja and the Chinese telecommunication company has
arrived in Port Harcourt to seek an early release of the
workers.
Li is currently attending the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN)-China foreign ministers' meeting in Cebu City in
the Philippines.
(Xinhua News Agency January 12, 2007)
