Chinese FM condoles over An-72 plane crash in Kazakhstan
13:42, 29 December 2012
ASTANA. December 29. KAZINFORM Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Yang Jiechi has sent a telegram of condolences to his Kazakh counterpart Yerlan Idrissov on the occasion of the fatal airplane crash near Shymkent that killed 27 people on December 25.
"It is with great sadness that I've received the news of the An-72 transport plane crash that claimed many lives.
On behalf of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs please accept my deepest condolences," the telegram reads.