Tue. Mar 19th, 2024

Senior Kremlin Aide Yuri Viktorovich Ushakov announced on Monday that President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a visit to Beijing at the invitation of President Xi himself. President Putin is expected to set out on a three-day visit to Beijing starting from the 8th of June, coinciding with all the important meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Summit that the President is expected to attend on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of June.

President Putin has always maintained a very friendly relationship with President Xi, and have always been very active contacts, summing it up to a total of 25 personal state visits among the two leaders, 5 of them having taken place in 2017 itself. President Xi Jinping was also confirmed to have called President Putin to congratulate him upon being re-elected as the President of the Russian Federation on the 19th of March itself. Yuri Ushakov also declared that maintaining a mutual strategic interaction between China and Russia has always been one of the top priorities of the Russian foreign policy.

After the three-day trip to China, President Putin and President Xi are expected to have taken part in favourable negotiations which have already been pre-planned in narrow as well as enlarged formats. The result of these negotiations is set to draft joint statements which would be adopted to seal guidelines for practical international cooperation between both the countries. Following tradition, a substantial package of documents covering cooperation deals regarding trade, outer space, energy, as well as intellectual property production are scheduled to be signed by both the Presidents during their many conferences.

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