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2025-12-13 17:21:54
[Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries President Yang Wanming Visits Sri Lanka] From December 11 to 13, Yang Wanming, President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, led a delegation to Sri Lanka at the invitation of the Sri Lankan government. He met separately with Ratnayake, member of the Political Bureau of the People's Liberation Front, Chairman of the Sri Lankan Parliament's China Friendship Group, and Minister of Transport, Roads and Urban Development; Herat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism; Gamag, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Bartaza, Mayor of Colombo. He also held a collective discussion with Abeysekera, President of the Sri Lanka-China Social and Cultural Cooperation Association, and other leaders of Sri Lankan friendship organizations regarding deepening people-to-people exchanges between China and Sri Lanka. The Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries expressed its willingness to provide assistance to these organizations to the best of its ability, supporting Sri Lanka's flood relief and reconstruction efforts. All parties expressed their commitment to jointly implementing the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and President Disanayake, promoting people-to-people, local, cultural, and youth exchanges between China and Sri Lanka, and continuously advancing the strategic cooperative partnership of sincere mutual assistance and lasting friendship between the two countries. (Xinhua)
