On July 24th, Vice President Xie Yuan met with Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Special Adviser of the Secretary General of the United Nations.

Ms. Mohammed was previously Senior Special Assistant to three Presidents of Nigeria, mainly in charge of the promotion and implementation of Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria. She also served as Coordinator of the Task Force on Gender and Education for the United Nations Millennium Project. At present she is the Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015Development Planning.

Vice President Xie briefed Special Adviser about the cooperation between CPAFFC and “Every Woman Every Child” (EWEC) project group in recent years, as well as the preparation we had done for EWEC China Partnership Network. Xie introduced that CPAFFC planned to launch the Network during Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s visit to China this September, hoping that the United Nations could support the Network with its rich resources in all governments, so as to establish a platform for cooperation among governments, institutions and enterprises. Mohammed said that she would urge the “EWEC” project group to work closely with the Network in order to make contribution to the health and well-being of women,N children and adolescence all over the world.

The two sides also discussed about the arrangement of Chinese delegation’s attendance to the Summit in Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations this September. Deputy Director General of Department of American and Oceania Affairs Ji Yongjun attended the meeting.