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BEIJING, June 23-- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks or meetings here Sunday with foreign ministers from eight African countries, who are here to attend the upcoming coordinators' meeting on the implementation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Summit outcomes. The foreign ministers are Sierra Leone's foreign minister Nabeela Tunis, Gabon's foreign minister Alain Claude Bilie, Cameroon's foreign minister Lejeune Mbella Mbella, San Tome and Principe's foreign minister Elsa Teixeira Pinto, Somali foreign minister Ahmed Isse Awad, Madagascar's foreign minister Andriantsit Ohaina Franck Michel Niaina, Congo's foreign minister Jean Claude Gakosso and Senegal's foreign minister Amadou Ba. In talks with Tunis, hailing the two countries as "good friends and good brothers", Wang called on the two sides to continue to firmly support each other on issues concerning each others' core interests and major concerns, strengthen alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative and the eight major initiatives proposed at the FOCAC Beijing Summit with Sierra Leone's medium-term national development plan, and beef up cooperation on infrastructure, agriculture and fishery, health care, communication, and capacity building. Sierra Leone supports Africa and China to deepen partnership and is ready to strengthen communication and coordination with China on implementing the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and reform of the global governance system, Tunis said. | 
