Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to China next week, where the third “One Belt, One Road” forum will be held on October 17 and 18, Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuriy Ushakov said on Wednesday. agencies EFE and Agerpres.

Vladimir Putin and Xi JinpingPhoto: Oleksiy Druzhinin / AP – The Associated Press / Profimedia

He told the press that Putin’s visit to China was planned “in the coming week”, after the Russian president visits Kyrgyzstan on Thursday and Friday, his first foreign visit since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued the warrant in March for arrest his name.

In turn, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Mykola Patrushev, said that Putin will hold meaningful talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in China.

During the latter’s visit to Moscow in March, the two leaders forged a “borderless partnership” between their countries, although specific details were not made public, and shared a common vision of a multipolar world as a counterweight to the unipolarity supported by the West, especially the US.

The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, will also visit China next week, October 16-18, his ministry said on Tuesday, clarifying that this visit will take place within the framework of the One Belt, One Road forum. (“Belt and Road”).

This Chinese initiative, which is also called the “New Silk Road”, is aimed at opening new commercial connections for Chinese companies and is based, in particular, on the implementation of large infrastructure projects.

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