The talks between the presidents of China and Russia on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympics reaffirmed the line they set several years ago and looks forward to “the steady development of strategic partnerships in all areas: economy, energy, humanitarian and cultural relations.” “Military and technical-defense cooperation,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
He said that the current relations between Moscow and Beijing were described as “the best in the history of Russia-China relations”, while the Chinese president stressed that “they go beyond the allied relations”.
As for the international situation, Lavrov said that special attention was paid during the talks between the two leaders “to the tension that the West is consciously fueling around the Russian Federation and China, while Russian President Vladimir Putin once again exposed the Russian position on talks with US and NATO “on need for clear security guarantees on European continent” and Chinese President “reaffirmed Russia’s support for the issue and people “.
According to Lavrov, Putin and Xi agreed to “closely coordinate our actions on the international stage, including to counter the efforts to undermine the UN (foundation of the general force of international law) and to convene” clubs of interests “, which will only create dividing lines in international affairs “. “We are consistently fighting against this, defending the system of international relations, which is enshrined in the aims and principles of the UN Charter,” he told Russian journalists. “after today’s Putin-X meeting.”
“I am not the one who can guess what our western colleagues may be surprised by in the current circumstances. “They do this with a cause and without (mostly without), or for reasons that they invent themselves,” Sergei Lavrov replied.
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