Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet China’s head of diplomacy Wang Yi in Moscow this Wednesday, with whom he will discuss, among other things, the conflict in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said on Monday that it is possible that Russian President Vladimir Putin will receive Wang, who is director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, at a post above the foreign minister. Business state. Affairs.
Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev assured Wang Yi on Tuesday that relations between Moscow and Beijing will not be affected by “external circumstances”.
“Developing the strategic association with China is an absolute priority of Russia’s foreign policy. Our relations have their own value and are not subject to external conjunctures,” Patrushev told Wang, quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency.
The Russian official also defended that, in the context of a Western campaign to “contain Russia and China”, deepening bilateral ties and cooperation of the two countries in the international arena is of particular importance.
“I would like to reaffirm our unwavering support for Beijing on Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, which are being used by the West as a way to discredit China,” he added.
According to Patrushev, the “transformation of the system of international relations into a multipolar model” is encountering “growing opposition from the West”, which wants to maintain its global dominance at all costs.
Russia’s Secretary of the Security Council also warned Wang that Western countries have “unilaterally denounced a series of international treaties, including on arms control”.
Source: DN
