ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica and the Folks’s Republic of China have signed what’s described as “a brand new part of an Financial and Technical Cooperation Settlement amounting to EC$37 million.
The signing ceremony occurred on the Chinese language Embassy right here on Wednesday.
Chinese language Ambassador to Dominica, Chu Maoming, acknowledged that it was a fantastic honour and pleasure to signal the brand new part of the financial and technical cooperation settlement between the federal government of the Folks’s Republic of China and the federal government of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
“That is extra than simply the signing of a doc; it’s a reaffirmation of belief, a deepening of friendship, and a gap up of recent horizons for our partnership,” Chu Maoming acknowledged.
“This settlement marks a major step in direction of the implementation of the 5 Programmes of Solidarity, Improvement to Civilization, Peace, and Folks-to-Folks Connectivity, as introduced by Chinese language President Xi Jinping on the opening ceremony of the fourth ministerial assembly of the China-CELAC Discussion board in Might this 12 months.”
“It additionally displays the vital consensus reached by leaders of our two international locations, demonstrating the joint efforts of China and Dominica,” he stated.
In accordance with Chu Maoming, over the previous 21 years for the reason that institution of diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations, China and Dominica have “stood shoulder-to-shoulder and have achieved exceptional leads to infrastructure, agriculture, healthcare, training, and human assets improvement for Dominica.”
Signing on behalf of Dominica was Minister for International Affairs Dr. Vince Henderson who welcomed the event and acknowledged that “as we commemorate the eightieth Anniversary of the tip of Japanese aggression and fascism in opposition to the Folks’s Republic of China (it) is a testomony that, whilst you bear in mind, you’re additionally extending the hand of friendship to different international locations like Dominica.”
He thanked the Chinese language President Xi for what he described as “the management that he has proven globally and for strengthening the bonds between the Caribbean, Latin America, and China on the not too long ago held assembly in Beijing.”
“Commitments given by President Xi are manifesting themselves, and right this moment we’re signing the settlement to offer $EC37 million Jap Caribbean {dollars} to the federal government and other people of the Commonwealth of Dominica in a number of areas of cooperation which now we have established during the last 21 years,” Henderson remarked.
“And, as you bear in mind these nice Chinese language males, girls, youngsters, who gave their lives to make sure that they’d deliver an finish to fascism and the Japanese aggression in opposition to the individuals of China, we as soon as once more need to be a part of with you in your objective of bringing collectively all of China, which incorporates the province of Taiwan,” he concluded.
