In the morning of December 16 local time, Premier Li Keqiang met in Belgrade with Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma of Latvia.

Li Keqiang expressed that China and Latvia enjoy close relations and a sound cooperation in economy, trade, agriculture, people-to-people and cultural and other fields. China will intensify investment and take part in enterprise privatization in Latvia, thus to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. The cooperation between China and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) conduces to the overall and balanced development of China-Europe relations. Latvia will soon assume the rotating presidency of the EU. It is hoped that both sides could enhance cooperation, speed up the negotiation on the China-EU investment agreement, and push China-EU relations for in-depth development.

Laimdota Straujuma said that Latvia-China relations witness a sound development. Latvia will take the rotating presidency of the EU next year, and is willing to, together with China, strengthen high-level exchanges, facilitate cooperation in such fields as agriculture, connectivity and logistics, accelerate the negotiation on the EU-China investment agreement and promote construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt, thus to play a positive driving role for CEEC-China cooperation and EU-China relations.