Lavrov: Putin and Xi agreed to closely coordinate our actions on the international stage

The talks between the Presidents of China and Russia reaffirmed the line they had set several years ago and which looks forward to “the steady development of the strategic partnership in all areas: economy, energy, humanitarian and cultural relations, military and technical-defense cooperation”. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that the current Moscow-Beijing relations were once again described as “the best in the history of Russia-China relations”, while the Chinese President stressed that “somewhere 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 the People’s Republic of China”, while Russian President Vladimir Putin stated another Russia’s position on talks with the US and NATO “on the need for clear security guarantees on the European continent” and the Chinese president reaffirmed Russia’s support for the of the Russian state 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 enshrined in the aims and principles of the UN Charter,” he said. “After today’s Putin-X meeting.”

“I am not the one who can guess what our Western colleagues can 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.

SOURCE: AMPE