On June 27th, CPAFFC Vice President Hu Sishe met with Mr. Victor Petrovic Walterlasky,  Chairman of  Force Union between Russian and Cossacks Abroad and his delegation. The both sides discussed on events of exchanges of youth and traditional culture.

Vice President Hu welcomed Chairman Walterlasky and briefed him about the status of the CPAFFC. He said, the CPAFFC paid great attention to the relationship with Russia, and has been engaged in friendship works to Russia for a long time. After the heads of State of the two countries raised the idea of establishing Comprehensive Strategic and Collaborative Partnership, the cooperation between the two countries has been continuously deepened from political mutual trust to economic cooperation, developing to cultural exchanges. Among these works, the exchange of youth is one of the emphases of the CPAFFC’s work. Starting from youth, further consolidating the basic of friendship, is very significant of developing in-depth cooperation.

Chairman Walterlasky thanks for Vice President Hu’s hospitality. He gave a brief introduction of culture of Cossacks. He said, his visit to China this time impressed him very much. He hoped to jointly set up a long-term and healthy platform with the CPAFFC, to develop cooperation especially in exchanges of youth education and Cossack culture. He proposed that, in this October, Force Union between Russian and Cossacks Abroad will cooperate with the Commission for Economic Cooperation of CIFA, to organize a 100-person delegation formed by students to visit China. He would take this as an opportunity to open a door for the cooperation of the both sides. At the same time, he sincerely invited President Li Xiaolin and Vice President Hu Sishe to visit Russia.

Song Jingwu, Director-General of Department of European and Asian Affairs attended the meeting, and gave a brief introduction on friendly exchange work to Russia.

After the meeting, Zhou Ruiming, Secretary General of Commission for Economic Cooperation of CIFA and Chairman Walterlasky signed an agreement on developing youth exchanges.