The foreign ministers of Russia and China today condemned the West’s illegal and counterproductive sanctions against Moscow over its actions. invasion of Ukraineas stated in a statement the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov in the province of Anui, in eastern China, where a two-day summit dedicated to Afghanistan will be held.
The meeting comes a month after Russia sent thousands of troops to Ukraine, triggering unprecedented Western sanctions.
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“The ministers had a thorough exchange of views on the situation around Ukraine. “The Russian Foreign Minister briefed his Chinese counterpart on the progress of the special military operation… and the dynamics of the negotiation process with the Kiev regime,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“The parties noted the counterproductive nature of the illegal unilateral sanctions imposed on Russia by both the United States and its satellites.”
The ministry said the two ministers agreed that Russia and China would continue to strengthen their strategic cooperation and discuss international affairs.with one voice».
“It was agreed to further strengthen foreign policy coordination and expand co-operation in the bilateral field and in various multilateral structures,” the ministry said.
Wang said China-Russia relations had “withstood the test of international turmoil” and were continuing to grow steadily, according to Phoenix TV.
“There is no limit to China-Russia cooperation, there is no limit to our efforts to achieve peace, protect security and oppose hegemony,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters in Beijing.
Lavrov, who said yesterday that Russia’s relations with China were at the strongest level ever, had traveled to China for talks with Wang, who were to include representatives from the Afghan-ruled Taliban and Pakistan. Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
A “fairer” world order
Five weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Lavrov today received new assurances from his Chinese ally about the two countries’ “unlimited” friendship with the United States.
Faced with Ukrainian resistance and the unification of Western democracies, which have adopted unprecedented sanctions against it, Russia can only count on Chinese power to escape complete economic isolation.
In this context, Sergei Lavrov took advantage of a bilateral meeting in eastern China with his counterpart Wang Yi to announce the arrival of a new world order, which the two countries dream of.
“We are experiencing a very serious stage in the history of international relations,” he said in a video of the conversation released by his ministry.
“I am convinced that, at the end of this stage, the international situation will be much clearer and we (…) will move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world orderHe said to his host.
In a statement issued by Moscow, the two countries said they wanted to “continue to deepen foreign policy co-ordination” and “expand joint action”, but without specifying specific measures.
“Opposition to hegemony”
Western powers have warned Beijing not to support the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which would allow Moscow to reduce the impact of sanctions.
Chinese companies are cautious in their dealings with Russia, fearing that they may be indirectly affected by the sanctions.
Lavrov therefore had to content himself with a reaffirmation of the unlimited friendship between the two countries vis-.-Vis their common rival, the United States.
“THE Sino-Russian cooperation is without limits. “Our quest for peace is limitless, our defense of security is limitless, our opposition to hegemony is limitless,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, when asked about the Russian minister’s visit.
Since February 24, Beijing has refused to condemn the invasion of Ukraine.
In early March, Wang Yi even hailed a “solid rock-solid” friendship with Moscow and defended Russia’s “reasonable” concerns about its security.
A few weeks before the war, Vladimir Putin himself had been warmly received by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing. The two countries have since spoken of a “borderless” friendship and have denounced NATO “expansion”.
Afghanistan on the menu
Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to attend a two-day meeting in China on Afghanistan, during which he will meet with a US diplomat.
Beijing and Moscow had seen the withdrawal of US forces from Kabul as evidence of American weakness.
The meetings, which are being held in Tunisia, in the great district of Shanghai in eastern China, are attended by seven countries neighboring Afghanistan. The head of Kabul’s ruling diplomacy in Kabul, Amir Khan Mutaki, is also expected, according to the New China news agency.
At the same time, a meeting of a “consultation mechanism” for Afghanistan will be held, with the participation of diplomats from China, Russia, Pakistan and the United States.
According to a State Department spokesman, Washington’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Tom West, will attend the summit.
The meetings come a week after Wang Yi’s visit to Kabul, for the first time since the rise of fundamentalist Islamists last August.
China has a 76-kilometer-long border with Afghanistan at a very high altitude.
Beijing has long feared that its neighbor could be a bulwark for Uighur separatists and Islamists, who make up the majority in China’s vast northwestern Xinjiang province.
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