More foreign leaders offer condolences over Yunnan earthquake

More foreign leaders sent condolence messages from Wednesday to Friday to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang over the earthquake in China's southwest Yunnan Province.

Leaders who have extended condolences included Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Moroccan King Mohammed VI, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, South African President Jacob Zuma, Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome, Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Cameroon President Paul Biya, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Guyanan President Donald Ramotar, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Spanish King Felipe VI, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Norwegian King Harald V, Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter, Greek President Karolos Papoulias, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, and President of Montenegro Filip Vujanovic.

Meanwhile, Australia, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Jamaica, Ecuador, Andorra, Cyprus, Croatia, the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the International Olympic Committee, and other countries and organizations also expressed condolences to China over the earthquake.

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Zhaotong City in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday. According to the latest official statistics, the disaster has left 617 people dead, with 112 others missing.