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| death_date = | | death_date = | ||
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| title = [[Foreign Office (China)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] | | title = [[Foreign Office (China)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] | ||
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| title2 = [[League of Nations|Permanent Representative of China to the League of Nations]] | | title2 = [[League of Nations|Permanent Representative of China to the League of Nations]] | ||
| monarch2 = Hongxian Emperor | | monarch2 = [[Hongxian Emperor]] | ||
| primeminister2 = Zhao Rui | | primeminister2 = [[Zhao Rui]] | ||
| term_start2 = 1 February 2001 | | term_start2 = 1 February 2001 | ||
| term_end2 = 17 September 2008 | | term_end2 = 17 September 2008 | ||
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===LN ambassador=== | ===LN ambassador=== | ||
On 1 February 2001 Wu Zhaohua became the Chinese Permanent Representative to the League of Nations. | On 1 February 2001 Wu Zhaohua became the Chinese Permanent Representative to the League of Nations. Controversially, in November 2002 during an LN Security Council meeting regarding the situation in {{W|Iraq}} and {{W|Saddam Hussein}}'s weapons of mass destruction, Wu abstained during the voting on {{W|United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441|LN Security Council Resolution 1441}}. The resolution would later be used as the legal justification for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the [[Anglo-America]]n countries. China's abstention from the vote was seen by observers as the beginning of the deterioration in relations between China and the Western democracies. | ||
==Foreign minister== | ==Foreign minister== | ||