Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi led a landmark signing ceremony in Hong Kong on Friday to set up the world’s first intergovernmental organisation on mediation, as he urged countries to go beyond zero-sum 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 – including Pakistan,…