Inscription Written for the Egyptian Newspaper, Al-Gamhouria
(January 1, 1957[R])

Source: Quoted in Gongren ribao (Jan. 4, 1957).

The Gongren ribao source carried a news report released by the Xinhua News Agency on
January 3, 1957, which indicated that on New Year's Day, 1957, the Egyptian newspaper
Al-Gamhouria (The Republic) published a special issue pamphlet on the People's Republic
of China. This pamphlet carried an inscription written by Mao for this special New Year's
Day issue, as well as an inscription written by Egypt's President Nasser. It appears from
the news report that the bulk of the material in this pamphlet was focused on the issues of
trade and economic cooperation between the PRC and Egypt. It is not clear whether this
quotation is the full text of Mao's inscription or an excerpt.

The development and consolidation of the friendly relations between China and
Egypt have great significance for the promotion of friendship and cooperation
among the Asian and African countries and for the defense of world peace. The
Chinese people are in total support of the just struggle undertaken by the Egyptian
people, under the leadership of President Nasser, to resist the foreign aggressor and
to defend their own independence and sovereignty.1

Note
1. See text Sept. 15, 1956(1), note 6.