Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, foreground centre, poses for a group photo with his counterparts (from left) Palestine’s Riyad al-Maliki, Egypt’s Sameh Shoukry, Saudi Arabia’s Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Jordan’s Ayman Safadi, and Indonesia’s Retno Marsudi, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Hissein Brahim Taha and their delegations prior to their meeting at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing, on Monday. China welcomed five Arab and Islamic counterparts to Beijing on Monday, saying the country would work with the ‘brothers and sister’ in the Arab and Islamic world to try to end the fighting in Gaza as soon as possible. (PTI)