BEIJING, Aug. 20 -- Li Liguo will attend Robert Mugabe's presidential inauguration as the special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Li, head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, will attend the ceremony in Harare on Aug. 22 at the invitation of the Zimbabwean government, Hua Chunying said.
Mugabe won the July 31 poll with 61 percent of the vote, beating his arch-rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who received 34 percent of the vote.
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