On March 25th, 2014, the Conference and Reception Marking the Establishment of 3rd Council of China-Arabia Friendship Association were held in Peace Palace, CPAFFC.  Hon. Mr. Arken Imirbaki, Vice-Chairman of Standing Committee of National People’s Congress and President of China-Arabia Friendship Association (CAFA), the vice presidents and council members of CAFA, envoys from the Embassy of Arabian countries in China, totally about 100 persons were present at the conference.

President Arken Imirbaki said in his address, since its establishment in 2001, CAFA had done large amount of work to promote the people-to-people contact between China and the Arabian countries. The establishment of the exchanging mechanism such as China-Arabia Friendship Conference, which had connected all the Arabian friendly-to-China organizations, developed series of bilateral exchanging activities in culture, scholarship, youth, economy and trade, and had achieved fruitful result. In the future, CAFA would enhance the mutual understanding and emphasis between the peoples by developing and supporting the research and promotion of each other’s culture and history, so as to fundamentally consolidate the base of China-Arabia friendship, and mark a new chapter for long lasting friendly relations between China and the Arabian countries.

H.E. Mr. Abdullah Al Saadi, the Oman ambassador to China and the head of the envoys group from the Embassy of Arabian countries in China extended the warm congratulation to Vice-Chairman Arken Imirbaki on his being elected as the new president of CAFA. He said, since the establishment of CAFA, the relationship between China and Arabian countries had been developing rapidly towards a sublime goal. The achievement was attributed to the results acquired by CAFA’s work on strengthening the people-to-people contact between China and the Arabian countries in the past few years. The both sides political relationship based on mutual respect had been strengthened and the economic and trading contacts based on the realizing common development had been more frequent, as well as the cultural exchanges had been further expanded and deepened, therefore, the two sides realized the mutual beneficial cooperation in international affairs. He thanked Chinese government for consistently supporting the cause of Arabian Countries including Palestine.