Liu said, it is a pleasure to meet with Nicaraguan friends face-to-face at the beginning of the year. Since China and Nicaragua resumed diplomatic relations in 2021, under the personal care and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and President Daniel Ortega, both sides have carried out cooperation in multiple areas such as politics, economy, trade, and media and achieved tangible results. Facts have fully proved that the resumption of diplomatic relations between our two countries is a major decision with strategic significance, conforms to the historical trend and the trend of our times, and is completely in line with the fundamental and long-term interests of the two peoples.

Liu said, sharing similar ideology, the CPC and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) have maintained sound inter-party relations since the 1960s. Since the resumption of diplomatic relations, the exchanges between our two Parties have entered a new stage. The CPC is willing to, together with the FSLN, strengthen strategic communication and institutionalized exchanges, learn the experience of modernization construction from each other, enrich together paths to modernization, reinforce communication and coordination on international affairs, and resolutely support each other on issues concerning core interests and major concerns, in a bid to promote China-Nicaragua relations for stable and long-term development.

Laureano said, the Nicaraguan side is very satisfied with the rapid development of relations between the two countries since the resumption of bilateral diplomatic relations. The FSLN cherishes the long-term friendly exchanges with the CPC, and believes the relationship between the two Parties guides the friendly relations between the two countries and peoples. The FSLN admires China for creating a new developing mode, and firmly believes that under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, China will make greater development achievements. The Nicaraguan side firmly supports China's positions on issues concerning core interests and major concerns, and hopes to further deepen cooperation between the two Parties in such aspects as official training, media and people-to-people and cultural engagement, enhance multilateral coordination, and boost bilateral relations for constant development.

Li Mingxiang, Vice-minister of the IDCPC, Ivan Adolfo Acosta Montalvan, Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Jesus Bermudez, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade, Daniel Edmundo Ortega Murillo, Media Coordinator of the Communication and Citizenship Council in Nicaragua, and others were present.

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