World's first intergovernmental mediation body set up in Hong Kong, as 33 countries sign on
2025-05-31 10:02:20 source：CGTN
May 30, 2025
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday morning attended the signing ceremony of the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organization for Mediation in south China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
The organization is the world's first intergovernmental legal body specifically dedicated to resolving international disputes through mediation, jointly proposed by China and 18 other countries in 2022.
About 400 high-level representatives from 85 countries and nearly 20 international organizations attended Friday's signing event. Among them, 33 countries signed the convention on-site, making them the founding members of the IOMed.
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