On April 18, President Li Xiaolin met with Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Keshavarz Zadeh.

President Li Xiaolin thanked Iranian Embassy for its active participation in Naurus Festival celebration hosted by the CPAFFC on March 22. She briefed on the people-to-people friendly exchanges conducted by the CPAFFC in recent years, delightedly recalled her visit to Iran in the year of 2010, when she initiated the First Annual Conference of Friendship Associations between China and Iran. She said that with the joint efforts of friendship associations and embassies of our two countries, the annual conference has grown into the institutional platform for people’s friendly exchanges between China and Iran throughout almost ten years’ development.

Ambassador Keshavarz Zadeh thanked Madam Li for her time, and highly appraised CPAFFC for its contribution to people’s connectivity between China and international community. He said that Iranian government has been making a positive response to the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping, by promoting cooperation with China. He expressed that Iranian embassy will constantly strengthen contact with the CPAFFC, deepen mutual understanding and friendship between Chinese and Iranian people.

Vice President Lin Yi and Deputy Director General Li Hai of Department of Asian and African Affairs attended the meeting.

Photographed by Zhang Rong