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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand on September 16, 2022.
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BEIJING—Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Russia from March 20 to 22, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
It will be Xi’s first visit to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in late February last year.
The two leaders met in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in September.
The ministry said the visit was at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He did not say whether Putin would meet with Xi.
The two leaders were expected to discuss further China-Russia cooperation, the Kremlin said in a statement, adding that “significant bilateral documents will be signed”, without elaborating.
The visit came as China renewed its call for a ceasefire in the Russian-Ukrainian war and peace talks to settle a conflict that began more than a year ago.
Beijing has refused to call Moscow’s unilateral attack on Ukraine an aggression.
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