Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to China’s President Xi Jinping all over the Shanghai Cooperation Group leaders’ summit in Samarkand on Sept. 16, 2022.
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BEIJING — Chinese language President Xi Jinping is about to seek advice from Russia from March 20 to 22, China’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs introduced Friday.
That is Xi’s first seek advice from to Russia for the reason that invasion of Ukraine in overdue February remaining 12 months.
The 2 leaders remaining met in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in September.
The ministry stated the seek advice from used to be at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request. It didn’t specify whether or not Putin would meet with Xi.
The 2 leaders are anticipated to speak about additional Sino-Russian cooperation, the Kremlin stated in a remark, including that “necessary bilateral paperwork will likely be signed” with out elaborating.
The seek advice from comes as China referred to as once more for a ceasefire within the Russia-Ukraine conflict and for peace talks to get to the bottom of the war that started simply over a 12 months in the past.
Beijing has refused to name Moscow’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine an invasion.
