On June 17, CPAFFC Vice President Lin Yi met with H.E. Mr. Alimamy Phillip Koroma, the new ambassador of Sierra Leone to China.

Mme. Lin welcomed H.E. Mr. Alimamy Phillip Koroma to visit the CPAFFC soon after assuming his office in China. She reviewed the CPAFFC’s friendly exchanges with Sierra Leone in recent years, and gave a detailed introduction to the CPAFFC’s cooperation with friendship organizations around the world and the “Forum on China-Africa Local Government Cooperation”. She said that the CPAFFC will stay in close contact with the embassy, further exchanges with local government and friendship organizations in Sierra Leone and facilitate the development of friendship cities between the two countries, so as to enhance China-Sierra Leone friendship.

H.E. Mr. Alimamy Phillip Koroma thanked Mme. Lin Yi for sparing the time to meet him, and spoke highly of the CPAFFC’s commitment to developing China-Africa people-to-people friendship. He said he will take the 45th anniversary of Sierra Leone-China diplomatic relations as an opportunity, to strengthen cooperation with the CPAFFC during his term and push forward the development of bilateral relations.