Argentina’s foreign minister pledges unchanged ‘China-friendly’ policy during visit aimed at steadying strained ties
- Diana Mondino’s delegation was the first official visit to China since the country’s Western-leaning government took office last year.
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“No matter how Argentina’s internal political situation changes, its friendly policy toward China will not change,” Diana Mondino told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, according to a foreign ministry statement.
Mondino, whose four-day visit to China finished on Wednesday, was accompanied by senior financial officials, including Central Bank President Santiago Bausili and Secretary of Finance Pablo Quirino, as well as a large business delegation of Argentine exporters.
It was Mondino’s first visit to China since she took office in December.
Wang hailed the China-Argentina comprehensive strategic partnership and called for deeper cultural exchanges at local levels, adding that Beijing would like to be Argentina’s “long-term and reliable cooperation partner”.
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