Peruvian leader dedicates new study center

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In his meeting with CUPL President Huang Jin, the ambassador said the EU continued to be commited to the future of CESL's development, and plans for an EU-China center of excellence for academic exchanges and research in the rule of law. Ederer also noted the recent leadership change at CESL, welcoming the new Chinese co-dean, Liu Fei, and the new European co-dean, Aalt Willem Heringa, to the CESL project.

Finnish Ambassador to China Lars Backstrom and his wife, Brigitta, hosted a reception at their residence on April 8 for Finland's president, Sauli Niinisto and his wife, Jenni Haukio. The couple was in China for the Boao Forum for Asia, held in the Hainan resort city of Sanya last weekend. China's President Xi Jinping learned that Sunday was the Finnish first lady's birthday and surprised her with a big cake at the official lunch hosted for visiting national leaders and their spouses.

A healthcare delegation headed by the Swedish minister for health and social affairs, Goran Hagglund, will visit China from April 14 to 18. Hagglund will meet with Chinese counterpart at the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Li Bin, and attend a Sino-Swedish seminar on value-based healthcare in Beijing. He will also visit the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the State Food and Drug Administration in the capital before moving on to Shanghai.

China's new consul-general for Chicago, Zhao Weiping, paid a courtesy call recently on Pat Quinn, the governor of Illinois. Quinn welcomed Zhao and said he is committed to making Illinois the most friendly American state to China. He also welcomed more Chinese enterprises to make investment and more Chinese students to study in Illinois.

Rwandan Ambassador Francois Xavier Ngarambe and his wife, Anne Marie (front left and center) on Monday hosted a solemn commemoration of the nation's genocide against the Tutsi people, with the week of April 7 to 13 declared as a week of mourning. The ceremonies marked the 19th time the Kigali government has commemorated the tragedy. The acting dean of African ambassadors, Sikonina Victor of Madagascar, delivered a speech calling for unity and reconciliation, urging all diplomats to carry this lesson to the whole world: that what happened in Rwanda should never happen again anywhere.