New Zealand Ambassador to ASEAN Visited ACC

On 27 June 2016, H.E. Mme. Stephanie Lee, New Zealand Ambassador to ASEAN, visited the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC). Ms. Melissa Crawford, First Secretary of New Zealand Embassy in China, joined the visit.

Ms. Huang Ying, Director of General Affairs and Coordination Division of ACC, extended warm welcome to Ambassador Stephanie Lee and conveyed regards from ACC Secretary-General H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping. Director Huang introduced the history and mandate of ACC and its major work progress since this year. She said that ACC had become an important platform for the functional cooperation between ASEAN and China. ACC would continue to play the role as a one-stop information and activities centre, and make new contributions to promote ASEAN-China relations.

Ambassador Stephanie Lee expressed her appreciation to the warm reception of ACC and introduced the latest development of ASEAN-New Zealand relations and related cooperation mechanism. She said that New Zealand was strengthening exchange and cooperation with ASEAN in the fields of agriculture, media, youth, and disaster prevention, etc. She would like to maintain close contact and share experience with ACC to jointly promote regional prosperity and development.