Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Liu Jianchao announces:

The follow-up 172 troops of the Chinese peace-keeping military engineers to the UN/AU hybrid mission in Darfur will leave for Darfur from Zhengzhou, Henan Province, on July 16. All of the 315 personnel sent to Darfur by China will fully be deployed until then. We will work with the international community and continue our contribution to achieve at an early date the peace, stability and development in Darfur.