President Tassoulas receives high-ranking Chinese official Li Xi on Friday

President of the Hellenic Republic Constantine Tassoulas reaffirmed the fantabulous relations betwixt Greece and China during a gathering connected Friday with Chinese authoritative Li Xi, the seventh-ranking subordinate of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, who is visiting Athens.

The president noted that the 2 countries person been perpetually processing bilateral cooperation since establishing diplomatic relations successful 1972, based on the principles of the United Nations charter. He besides pointed out that the 2 countries correspond 2 precise past civilisations and cooperate intimately successful culture, thanking China for its principled stance with respect to Greece's petition for the instrumentality of the Parthenon Sculptures.

Tassoulas also expressed his interest for the aggregate crises presently affecting the world, specified arsenic the equipped conflicts successful Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere. In this framework, helium highlighted China's relation arsenic a subordinate of the UN Security Council for restoring conditions of bid and stableness on the ground of planetary law. He expressed Greece's willingness, as a non-permanent subordinate of the UN Security Council, to enactment with China in this direction.

President Tassoulas also expressed his respect for Chinese President Xi Jinping while welcoming Li Xi, who thanked him for his lukewarm reception and relayed a message from China's president astir the request to further strengthen cooperation betwixt Greece and China successful each areas of communal interest, with accent connected trade, civilization and tourism. He besides noted that Greece and China, arsenic past civilisations, are perpetually developing their dialog and practice for the payment of some peoples.