Mutharika off to China
23/03/2008 14:56  - (SA)  

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Blantyre - Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika left on Sunday for his first state visit to China, two months after the southern African nation dumped Taiwan to switch its diplomatic allegiance to Beijing.

Mutharika told reporters he would sign "a whole range" of accords with his counterpart Hu Jintao during the course of his week-long visit, saying the Chinese leader had "personally invited" him for the "historic" visit.

"We have several agreements that we are to sign in the area of trade, economic cooperation, energy, transport and communications infrastructure ... the whole range of them," Mutharika said.

"I am looking forward to really very useful cooperation between ourselves."

Malawi in January dumped Taiwan, its ally of 41 years, leaving only four African countries to still recognise the regime in Taipei rather than its rivals in Beijing.

Taiwan split from mainland China in 1949 at the end of a civil war.

- AFP

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