Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spearheaded a signing ceremony in Hong Kong on Friday to establish the world’s first intergovernmental organisation dedicated to mediation, which he said would transcend “you-lose-I-win” mindsets and improve representation of the Global South.
Most of the 33 signatories of the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation were African countries, such as Algeria, Ethiopia and Cameroon. Alongside them were five countries –…
