The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Agio Pereira and the Acting Minister of the Interior, Alexandrino de Araújo, received the Chinese Ambassador to Timor-Leste, Xiao Jianguo, on Friday, March 29 at the Government Palace in Dili.

The meeting comes after the death of Tan Lin Xue, a Chinese-born doctor in the early hours of Monday in Dili and aimed at ensuring effective coordination between all state institutions and the Chinese Embassy in Timor-Leste on this issue.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation assured that “national institutions are doing everything in their power to solve this case”.

The Ambassador of China took the opportunity “to renew his statement of his highest consideration to the National Police”.