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Premier Wen Jibao will address China-Latam relations at a conference in ECLAC

Premier of China, Wen Jiabao, will visit the headquarters of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday 26 June to deliver a lecture.

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The Chinese official is currently at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil

Wen Jiabao will speak on Chinese-Latin American relations. He will first be received by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, who will welcome him on behalf of this United Nations regional commission.

China's Ambassador in Chile, Yang Wanming, and other representatives from the diplomatic corps, local authorities, officials and experts from international agencies, academics and members of civil society are also scheduled to attend.

Wen Jiabao has been Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China since 2003. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China(CPC), Vice-Premier of the State Council, member of its Leading Party Members' Group and Secretary of the Financial Work Commission of the CPC Central Committee.

He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1965. An engineer by profession, he graduated from the Beijing Institute of Geology, majoring in geological structure.

Published in: Economy, Politics, International, Latin America.

Tags: Alicia Bárcena, Chile, China-Latam, ECLAC, Rio+20 meeting, Wen Jiabao.

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1 Self Determination (#) Jun 25th, 2012 - 09:55 pm Report abuse: The topic will be,“ Howto exploit Latam countries for their natural resources.”
“We will build ports ,railways and roads to get your produce on our ships,and still maintain a huge balance of trade surplus in our favour.”
We have done it in Africa ,trying it in Australia, we are experts .

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