Reply When Accepting the Credentials Presented
by the New Romanian Ambassador to China, Chahalescu
(February 17, 1959)

In his reply, Chairman Mao Zedong stated: In recent years, the friendly cooperation between China and Romania in the political, economic and cultural fields has achieved great development. The Chinese people sincerely thank the Romanian people for the support and assistance they have rendered in our country's socialist construction.

Chairman Mao Zedong stated that the friendly and cooperative relations between our two countries are founded on the basis of proletarian internationalism and are therefore unbreakable. I am deeply convinced that on the broad road along which the peoples of our two countries are building socialism and courageously advancing towards communism, this sincere friendship and cooperation will certainly be increasingly consolidated and developed; this will help strengthen the great unity of the socialist camp headed by the Soviet Union and contribute to the lofty cause of world peace and human progress.