JOHANNESBURG: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi have agreed to meet in Moscow. "We have agr...
JOHANNESBURG: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi have agreed to meet in Moscow.
"We have agreed on your visit to Moscow. So our next contact will be already in Russia," Lavrov said during talks with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 ministerial meeting in South Africa.
Lavrov pointed out that the beginning of the new year was "very fruitful" for the Russia-China relations.
"There is no doubt that further work in the course of 2025 will yield results on the basis of the tasks defined by [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin and [Chinese] President Xi Jinping, including during the recent in-depth New Year contacts," the top Russian diplomat said. He pointed out that relations between Moscow and Beijing "have become and will remain an increasingly important factor in stabilizing the international situation and preventing it from sliding toward total confrontation."
"Our strategic relations will extend to our work in the UN, in particular in the Security Council, in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in BRICS, in ASEAN and, of course, in the G20, which is an important step in promoting the principles of multipolarity and getting our Western colleagues used to honest, fair, balanced and mutually respectful work," Lavrov emphasized.
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