Beijing, June 11 (Prensa Latina) Honduras today opened its embassy in China with a ceremony at which it reaffirmed its willingness to work together to strengthen bilateral ties, expand mutually beneficial cooperation and increase coordination on multilateral platforms strengthen.
The ceremony in Beijing was attended by the President of the Central American country, Xiomara Castro, and the Foreign Ministers Eduardo Enrique Reina and Qin Gang.
During the inaugural speech, the Honduran foreign minister called the president’s decision to believe in the one-China principle and establish diplomatic relations on March 26 courageous.
He was confident that the appointment of the prominent scientist Salvador Moncada as the first Honduran ambassador to China would make it possible to further deepen relations.
Welcoming the Asian giant’s socio-economic and technological achievements, he indicated that Tegucigalpa hopes to work with Beijing to improve the quality of life of its population, promote product access to this important market, collaborate on the Strip project and the silk road.
Among other things, Reina thanked President Castro for the welcome, highlighted the development of the meetings held since her arrival and hoped for a future with fruitful results in the interactions between the two nations.
Honduras inaugurated its embassy here after China did so in its capital last week and as part of Xiomara Castro’s first official visit to the eastern state.
The trip comes nearly three months after Tegucigalpa formalized ties with Beijing and broke ties with Taiwan, now recognized by only 13 countries in the world, for more than 80 years.
Castro opened the visit to Shanghai on Thursday and the start of the agenda in this important destination metropolis shows the interest in strengthening trade relations.
In fact, at a meeting yesterday with the organization’s president, Brazilian Dilma Rousseff, he requested his country’s accession to the New Development Bank, popularly known as the “Bank of Brics,” and later spoke to executives at tech company Huawei. Between tomorrow and Tuesday, she will be received by senior Chinese officials, including her host counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Castro himself stressed the importance of this visit in expanding “new political, technical, commercial and cultural horizons” for Honduras, while her government mentioned the signing of “strategic and thematic cooperation agreements” with China.