Ismail Amat, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, will attend the inauguration ceremony of Turkmenistan's elected president as President Hu Jintao's special envoy.

 

Ismail Amat will leave for Turkmenistan today as guest of the Turkmen government, according to sources with the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

 

(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2007)