The Chinese Embassy in Timor-Leste Held the Army Day Reception
2019-07-30 20:58

On the evening of July 25th, Senior Colonel Huang Damin, Defense Attache of the Chinese Embassy, hosted the reception at the Embassy to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. More than 280 people attended the reception, including H.E. Mr. Filomeno, Minister of Defense of Timor-Leste, H.E. General Lere, CDF of F-FDTL and government, military, police and parliamentary officials, military attaches corps, foreign military advisers, representatives of overseas Chinese and Chinese enterprises. H.E. Dr. Xiao Jianguo, Chinese Ambassador to Timor-Leste led all Chinese diplomats to attend the reception.

H.E. Ambassador Xiao welcomed H.E. Minister of Defense and other distinguished guests to grace the reception. He spoke highly of the bilateral relations between China and Timor-Leste, especially the achievements in bilateral defense cooperation. He hoped to continue to promote in-depth development of bilateral relations under the framework of Belt and Road Initiative.

Senior Colonel Huang Damin reviewed the glorious history of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, emphasized the important contribution of China's participation in UN peacekeeping operations, introduced the newly released White Paper on China’s National Defense in the New Era, and elaborated on China’s national defense policy that is defensive in nature and military mandate in the new era. He summed up the cooperation achievements of the two armies in personnel training, equipment and other fields, and said that the Chinese side will continue to work hard to promote defense cooperation between two countries and improve the capacity building of armed forces of Timor-Leste.

On behalf of Timor-Leste, H.E. Mr Filomeno, Minister of Defense and Acting Minister of Interior, congratulated on the 92nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, appreciated the contribution made by the Chinese military in UN peacekeeping and international humanitarian relief, thanked China for its generous assistance to F-FDTL. He also expressed willingness to further promote in-depth cooperation between two countries and militaries.

With warm atmosphere at the reception, all the guests watched the feature films The Chinese Army for world peace with great interest. They congratulated China on the 92nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, appreciated the contribution of the Chinese army to safeguarding world peace, expressed the wish for more exchanges and cooperation between two countries and two armies in the future.

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