On June 18, 2013, President Xi Jinping met with Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Vice President of the Council of State and First Vice President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, at the Great Hall of the People.
Xi Jinping asked Diaz-Canel to convey his sincere greetings to President Raul Castro of Cuba and Fidel Castro. Xi Jinping said that China and Cuba have always understood and supported each other since the establishment of diplomatic relationship. In the new century, the China-Cuba relationship has been increasingly mature with more content of cooperation and strong vitality. The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government cherish the traditional friendship with Cuba and is willing to work with the Cuban side to maintain high-level exchanges, to strengthen party-to-party exchanges and to share the experiences of state governance, to enhance political mutual trust, to build up consensus, to deepen mutual understanding, to expand practical cooperation and to boost development and common prosperity in the two countries. China is willing to coordinate and cooperate closely with Cuba on international and regional affairs and to make positive contributions to enhancing the influence of developing countries and promoting fairness and justice of the international community.
Xi Jinping said, I paid a visit recently to three Latin American and Caribbean countries. I was deeply impressed by the vigour and potential of development of the Latin American and Caribbean region. China is ready to be a good partner of Latin American and Caribbean countries, with political mutual respect and trust, complementary and mutual benefit in economy and trade, and exchanges in culture. China is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries to establish an overall China-Latin America cooperation mechanism with China-Latin American Cooperation Forum as the core to push forward mutually beneficial and friendly cooperation between China and Latin America at a higher level. China appreciates the positive efforts of Cuba to promote the overall China-Latin America cooperation and is looking forward to greater development of China-Latin America relations while Cuba holding the rotating presidency of Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
Diaz-Canel conveyed the greetings of President Raul Castro and Fidel Castro to Xi Jinping. Diaz-Canel said Cuba places great importance on Cuba-China relations and is willing to work with China to strengthen high-level visits and communication, to expand friendly and mutually-beneficial cooperation and to push for greater development of relationship between the two countries and relations between China and Latin America.
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Publish date : 2013-06-18 03:00:00
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