Telegram to Rajendra Prasad
(May 12, 1957)

Source: RMRB (May 14, 1957), 1. Other Chinese Text: XHBYK, 109 (June 1957),
88. Available English Translation: NCNA, Daily News Release (May 14, 1957), 1.

President Rajendra Prasad,
The Republic of India

Your Excellency:

On receiving the happy news of your reelection as President of the Republic of
India, on behalf of the Chinese people and on my own behalf, I extend my warm
congratulations to Your Excellency and to the Indian people. I am confident that,
with Your Excellency’s reelection as President, the relations of friendship and
cooperation between China and India will be further developed. May Your Excel-lency and the Indian people attain new successes in the cause of building the
Republic of India and in safeguarding peace.
(Signed as Chairman of PRC, dated in Beijing)