The Czechoslovak Foreign Institute – an active participant of the Czech-Chinese meetings

In the summer months, the members of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute were participants and in some cases even the initiators of the series of Czech-Chinese meetings.

The ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in the Czech Republic H. E. Ma Keqing invited the chairman of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute Jaromír Šlápota and the senator Jiří Čunek to her residence for a working lunch in June. It was attended by the political council of Chen Jianjun. Several days before children from the kindergarten at Jarov had visited the Chinese embassy at the invitation of the ambassador too, accompanied by the director of the kindergarten, and a member of the managing board of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute Hana Hlaváčková. The embassy staff prepared games, snacks and a walk around the garden of the embassy for them, the kids brought the cake and an album with photos from the spring visit, to which Mrs. Hlaváčková had invited a Chinese delegation to the kindergarten at Jarov.

Schoolchildren and teachers from the Chinese province of Zhejiang Sheng with the ambassador H. E. Ma Keqing and vice-chairman of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute and senator Ivo Valenta.

Children from the kindergarten Jarov present their artwork to the ambassador H. E. Ma Keqing

From a working lunch at the residence of the Chinese ambassador (from left): chairman of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute Jaromír Šlápota, H. E. Ma Keqing, Senator Jiří Čunek and Charge d affaires a. i. Chen Jianjun.

The great interest of the members and friends of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute was aroused by a discussion with the president of the Czech–Israeli Chamber of Commerce JUDr. Pavel Smutný.