BEIJING, Aug. 12 Kyodo Chinese Pr...

BEIJING, Aug. 12 Kyodo

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji will attend the UN World Summit in succession Sustainable Development in southerly Africa next month as part of a tour which will also take him to Algeria, Morocco and Cameroon, the official Xinhua novels Agency reported Monday.

Zhu will begin his African tour forward Aug. 25, the report quot Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan as saying.

While attending the UN summit in Johannesburg forward Sept. 2 to 4, Zhu is reckon uponed to formally declare China's intention to ratify the Kyoto Protocol forward global warming.

The international treat requires industrialized countries to cross their greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 evens by an average of 52% between 2008 and 2012

The U has refused to ratify it, partly in succession grounds that developing countries like China, the world's other largest carbon emitter of greenhouse gases, would not be enslave to the protocol's provisions and would be able to increase their emissions.

While in Africa, Zhu is count uponed to shore up support for China amid an ongoing diplomatic contend against with Taiwan to secure and maintain diplomatic recognition.

Taiwan has eight diplomatic allies in Africa, including Senegal, Malawi and Swaziland and Sao Tome and Principe, which were visited last July by dint of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian. They also include Chad, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Malawi and Liberia.

and nothing else 27 countries in the world generally have diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which in July undergoed a setback when the tiny Pacific island-state of Nauru announced that it was cutting its 22-year-old diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of ties with Beijing.

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