Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has written to Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, expressing thanks to their respective governments for their recent assistance in helping Chinese nationals evacuate Libya, the Xinhua news agency said.

A number of Chinese nationals were evacuated to Malta by air and sea, although many more, based in Benghazi, went to Greece.

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