Paris, December 10th--Song Tao, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met here today with Fabien Roussel, National Secretary of the French Communist Party of France (PCF)

Song congratulated Roussel on his election as the new PCF National Secretary. Song said that the PCF is an important force of the European left and has always followed the ideal of communism. The CPC highly values this. The CPC cherishes the traditional friendship with the PCF and is committed to developing friendly relations between the two Parties. The CPC is willing to continue to promote exchanges and cooperation between the two sides, enhance mutual understanding and trust, and explore a new type of political party relationship that seeks common ground while reserving differences, mutual respect, and mutual learning, so as to push the relations between the two Parties and the two countries for sustained and sound development.

Roussel thanked Song for his letter to congratulate him on his election as the PCF National Secretary. Roussel said that the new leadership of the PCF will continue to attach importance to the relations between the two Parties and is ready to continue to strengthen exchanges with the CPC and enhance the comprehensive understanding of the CPC and China among the PCF members and cadres, in a bid to consolidate and deepen the traditional friendship between the two Parties.

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