Vice President Xie Yuan met with Mr.Enrique Antia Behrens, Governor of Maldonado Department of Uruguay and Mr. Fernando Lugris，Uruguay Ambassador to China on June 21.

Vice President Xie Yuan extended his warm welcome to them for their visiting CPAFFC and made a brief introduction of CPAFFC and the situation of the friendly exchanges with Latin America countries including Uruguay. He said that CPAFFC would like to deepen the contact with the provinces and municipalities in Uruguay and the Embassy of Uruguay in China, strengthen the cooperation in various fields and promote the development of cause of the friendship between the people of the two countries.

Governor Enrique Antia Behrens and Ambassador Fernando Lugris thanked Vice President Xie Yuan for taking his time to meet them and spoke highly of the work done by CPAFFC in the fields of the international cities and people-to-people friendship. They expressed that they would like to keep close contact with CPAFFC, expected to cooperate with it in the fields of the local exchanges, sports and cultural exchanges, tourism promotion and strengthened the friendship of the two countries’ people.

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