Reply at the Ceremony of Accepting the Credentials from Soviet Ambassador to China Yudin

(December 15, 1953)

Comrade Ambassador,

I am very pleased to accept the credentials presented by you from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and express my heartfelt thanks for your congratulations. The fraternal friendship between the People’s Republic of China and the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has made tremendous progress and has been consolidated with each passing day over the past four years. The Chinese people have always cherished the friendship of the Soviet Union, and today, as they are engaged in large-scale national economic construction, they have come to realize even more deeply the incomparable value of the great friendship of the Soviet Union. The Chinese people will forever make unremitting efforts to continuously strengthen the close, friendly alliance and comprehensive cooperation between China and the Soviet Union. I am equally convinced that the unbreakable alliance and cooperation between our two great countries not only fully conform to the interests of the peoples of both countries, but also play an incomparably tremendous role in consolidating the peace and democratic camp headed by the Soviet Union and in safeguarding peace and security in the Far East and the world at large.

Comrade Ambassador, I extend to you a most cordial welcome as you assume the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the People’s Republic of China. In your work to consolidate the friendship, mutual assistance, and cooperation between China and the Soviet Union, you will receive the full support of myself and the government of the People’s Republic of China. I wish you complete success in your work.

Printed from the text in Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily), December 16, 1953.