Moscow:

Moscow and Beijing are carefully aligned of their positions on america and resolving the Ukraine battle, the Russian international ministry stated following talks between their high diplomats on Monday. The assertion got here after China’s Wang Yi kicked off a four-day go to to Moscow with a gathering with Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov, the most recent in a sequence of high-level contacts between the 2 strategic allies.

“The similarity of the events’ positions relating to US actions within the worldwide enviornment, together with these of an anti-Russian and anti-Chinese language nature, was said,” Russia’s international ministry stated.

“The events mentioned intimately the present state of affairs in Ukraine, noting the futility of makes an attempt to resolve the disaster with out considering Russia’s pursuits and, all of the extra so, with out Russia’s participation,” it added.

Wang additionally advised Lavrov concerning the content material of talks he held over the weekend with US President Joe Biden’s nationwide safety advisor Jake Sullivan, the assertion stated.

Russia and China continuously tout their “no limits” partnership and financial and army cooperation. 

China has sought to place itself as a impartial get together within the Ukraine battle, whereas providing Moscow a significant diplomatic and monetary lifeline as its worldwide isolation deepens.

In keeping with a Chinese language state media readout, Wang reiterated Beijing’s place paper on the Ukraine battle, which referred to as for peace talks however was met with scepticism by america and NATO when it was launched earlier this yr. 

Wang advised Lavrov the plan “takes under consideration the safety issues of all events and is conducive to eliminating the basis causes of the battle”, in response to China’s Xinhua.

“A everlasting good-neighbourly friendship, complete strategic cooperation, and mutually useful cooperation between China and Russia will proceed to contribute to the event and revitalisation of every nation,” he added.

Throughout his go to, Wang is because of maintain safety consultations on the invitation of Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s safety council.

President Xi Jinping made a state go to to Moscow in March and declared that relations between the 2 international locations have been coming into a brand new period.

An aide to Vladimir Putin stated in July that the Russian president was planning to go to China in October.

On the annual Japanese Financial Discussion board in Vladivostok final week, Putin advised Chinese language Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing that ties between Russia and China “have reached a fully unprecedented, historic degree”.

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