MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit China on Monday and Tuesday, his ministry said in a statement.

“On April 8 and 9, the foreign affairs minister … will undertake an official visit in the People’s Republic of China, during which discussions with... [his Chinese counterpart] Wang Yi are planned,” it said on Sunday.

“An in-depth exchange of points of view is expected on a certain number of ‘burning subjects’,” the statement said, citing “the Ukrainian crisis and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region”.

In Beijing, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning confirmed the “official” visit at Wang Yi’s invitation.

Published in Dawn, April 8th, 2024