On July 17, 2014, President Xi Jinping met in Brasilia with President Luis Guillermo Solis of Costa Rica, the rotating presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), President Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, the former rotating presidency, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, the elect rotating presidency and Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, the rotating presidency of the Caribbean Community.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the Chinese side attaches great importance to developing relations with CELAC. The four countries are all China's good friends and partners. They actively promote cooperation with China and have contributed a lot to preparing to establish the China-CELAC Forum and the successful holding of the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Summit. The Chinese side appreciates this. The Chinese side proposed to hold this China-Latin America and the Caribbean Summit to pool consensus at the highest level and jointly discuss the grand plan for promoting the China-Latin America comprehensive cooperative partnership under the new circumstances. The meeting confirmed the positioning of equality and mutual benefit and common development for the China-Latin America comprehensive cooperative partnership and charted the course for future development of the China-Latin America relations. It announced the establishment of the China-CELAC Forum and officially launched the process of overall cooperation between China and Latin America. The initiatives and measures I proposed have gained positive responses from Latin American leaders and I attach great importance to the many ideas and suggestions put forward by them. I hope that both sides will strengthen coordination and cooperation, work out a roadmap for the next stage, promote cooperation in various fields and make the first ministerial meeting of China-CELAC Forum which will be held next year in Beijing a great success.

Xi Jinping pointed out that the global trend goes forward with great strength and power. China-Latin America cooperation keeps up with the trend of history and embodies that developing countries are united together for self-improvement and that they will surely usher in a better future.

The leaders of the four countries made congratulations on the success of the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Summit. They expressed that President Xi Jinping's attendance reflects China's friendship and respect toward Latin America. China helps them sincerely, without attaching any political conditions. Their cooperation with China is mutually beneficial with win-win results. A series of important initiatives and measures proposed by President Xi Jinping conform to the needs of the development of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and surely will greatly promote the sustainable development of Latin America. The establishment of the CELAC-China Forum is a new milestone in the history of the Latin America-China relations. They look forward to intensifying dialogue with China, expanding cooperation, deepening friendship, strengthening the bilateral friendly cooperative relationship between the four countries and China, promoting the Latin America-China comprehensive cooperative partnership to continue to move forward, achieving common prosperity and progress and promoting world multi-polarization and democratization of international relations.

Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu, Yang Jiechi and others attended the meeting.