On the afternoon of September 27, 2012, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met with Secretary-General of the Arab League (AL) Nabil El-Arabi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr in New York, the United States.

In his meeting with El-Arabi, Yang said China and the AL have seen a rather sound development of their relationship. China is willing to work with the AL to expand and deepen all-round friendly cooperation, and further promote their strategic cooperative ties, he said. El-Arabi said the AL attaches importance to the status and role of China and would like to enhance communication and coordination with China in both regional and international affairs in a bid to further advance their strategic cooperative ties.

In the meeting with Amr, Yang said the ties between China and Egypt have grown increasingly close, with their cooperation of mutual benefit ever expanded. The two countries have also maintained communication over regional and global issues, he added. China appreciates the Egyptian side for actively participating in the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and for making important contributions to the success of the forum meetings. China will work with Egypt to implement the important agreements reached by the leaders of the two countries during President Morsi's China visit, conduct more pragmatic cooperation in various areas and deepen their strategic cooperative ties, Yang said. Amr, for his part, said Egypt-China cooperation is deepening and bilateral relations enjoy a strong momentum of development. Egypt wants to join hands with China to increase political mutual trust, expand trade and economic cooperation, and promote people-to-people exchanges so as to promote bilateral ties to a new higher level.