Canadian Consul Philippe Rheault addressed at the opening ceremony of SouthwestNormalUniversity's Foreign Languageand Culture Festival on November29, 2004.
While the first minister was on a mission to China to promote trade and cultural links, that country's consul general highlighted the importance of foreign language assistants in acting as a "bridge of cultural exchanges".
Azer Khalilov said his brother had written 15 letters to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband, but that these letters had not been received by the British consul in Bishkek.