MADRID, February 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko begins a state visit to China on Tuesday where he will meet the country’s top authorities, including his counterpart Xi Jinping, and which will be preceded by an open debate about what should be Beijing’s role and influence in relation to the Russian invasion. to Ukraine.
Lukashenko had arrived in the afternoon at the Chinese capital’s airport, for a journey that will last a total of three days and with which Minsk wants to move towards a “new level of cooperation” with Beijing, reported the BelTA news agency.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning emphasized at the news conference that the two countries were “strategic partners” and had anticipated that there would be “deep” discussions in various fields, according to a statement issued by the ministry itself.
Lukashenko is considered a key associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to whom he has provided political and logistical support since the invasion began. The Chinese regime, for its part, has avoided outright condemnation of this attack, for its solution it proposed a peace plan last week with more than a dozen points.
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