Hosting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the first high-level Russian official to visit Beijing since the Ukraine war, China said on Wednesday that cooperation between the two allies knew no bounds to resist hegemony. Russia’s state-run news agency Tass reported on Wednesday that Lavrov arrived in Tunxi in eastern China’s Anhui province for the third meeting of foreign ministers on Afghanistan.
“China-Russia cooperation has no limits, no limits for us to strive for peace, no limits for us to protect security,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here. And there is no limit for us.” Describe the limits of Sino-Russia relations Commenting on the recent round of talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Turkey, Wang Wenbin noted the “positive signs” displayed by both sides.
“We have always believed that dialogue and dialogue is the only right way to resolve the Ukraine crisis,” he said. Asked by a reporter from Russia’s official Tass news agency whether China, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, could be a guarantor for any agreement between Russia and Ukraine, Wang Wenbin said that China was not a guarantor of the crisis. Encourages all parties to seek peaceful solutions.
We support all diplomatic efforts in this direction, he said. Later, in his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Lavrov said that Russia is interested in building relations with China in a stable and consistent manner.
“We are interested in developing our relations with China steadily and continuously, our leaders – President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of China Xi Jinping agreed to this. Today, as you said, we are all those Will consider concrete steps to ensure agreements are consistently implemented,” the top Russian diplomat said. Putin and Xi met here in February at the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, where they strengthened their strategic alliance against the US and its coalition.
As reported by Tass, Lavrov said during a meeting with Wang Yi in Tunxi, “Dear friend, I am especially glad to talk to you in another beautiful province. I have already visited many provinces of China. I’ve done it, and they’re all really good.” While Lavrov’s visit to China is intended to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of neighboring countries on Afghanistan, his visit is valued as Beijing, a close ally of Moscow, has supported Russia’s war on Ukraine, even though As he went on, he called for a peaceful solution, highlighting Russia’s security concerns related to NATO expansion.
This is the first visit by a top Russian official to China since Moscow launched a war against Ukraine on February 24. Significantly, US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns will attend the trio meeting of special envoys of China, Russia and America. Afghanistan is being held on the side-line.
It is not yet clear whether Burns will meet Lavrov. The trio’s meeting will take place on the sidelines of the third meeting of foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries on Wednesday and Thursday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will chair the meeting which will be attended by foreign ministers or their representatives from Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi also met Wang Yi in Tunxi.
The two Foreign Ministers exchanged views on bilateral strategic, economic and security cooperation; covid 19 pandemic; peace, stability and development in Afghanistan; and regional and international issues of mutual interest, Pakistan’s official news agency APP reported. They highlighted that the consensus of the leaders is to enhance cooperation in various areas of cooperation such as high-quality development and industrial development of the CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) Phase-II, agricultural mode China-Lavrov-Victorization and information technology. was changing.
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