At the invitation of the Argentina Embassy in China, Mme. Li Xiaolin, President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with Mr. Diego Ramiro Guelar, Argentina Ambassador to China on February 9th.

President Li Xiaolin said that Argentina is an important country in Latin America. China and Argentina are good friends and partners. According to the instructions made by the Chinese President Xi Jinping, CPAFFC would play a leading role in promoting people-to-people diplomacy development, exert a key role in developing public diplomacy and play a bridge role in enhancing local government cooperation between domestic and abroad. CPAFFC would keep close cooperation with Argentina Embassy in China and actively promote to establish local government exchange and cooperation mechanism between China and Argentina.

Ambassador Diego Ramiro Guelar expressed his love for China and said that China’s peaceful development had made active contributions to the world. He hoped that the Argentina Embassy in China would like to cooperate with CPAFFC and promote the exchanges in the fields of local government and humanity and culture of the two countries.

Mr. Ji Yongjun, Deputy Director-General of Department of American and Oceanian Affairs of CPAFFC, attended the meeting.