China's top legislator Wu Bangguo left here Sunday morning for an official goodwill visit to Morocco at the invitation of Abdeloughed Radi, president of Morocco's chamber of representatives.

Following his visit to Morocco, Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), will head for the UN headquarters in New York to attend the Second World Conference for Parliamentary Speakers.

Wu's entourage includes his wife Zhang Ruizhen, NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman and Secretary General Sheng Huaren and Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo.

A girl who has once been held as a hostage(L) cries in the arms of her sisiter during a commemoration for the victims of the Beslan hostage tragedy at Beslan No. 1 School in Beslan of Russia's North Ossetia Republic September 2, 2005. The Beslan hostage tragedy happended on September 1, 2004 with 331 persons died including 186 childern.

Source: Xinhua