The presidents of China, and Russia,, on Tuesday began their bilateral meeting in Beijing, reports the state agency Xinhua, after both staged on Monday, their harmony at the 25th summit of the Shanghai cooperation organization.
Putin thanked China’s “efforts” yesterday, India and other OCS partners to try to end the war in Ukraine and said that “the attempts of the West of incorporating Ukraine into NATO are one of the causes” of the conflict.
Today’s meeting precedes the military parade for the 80th anniversary of the end of the Pacific, which will take place tomorrow at Tiananmen Square and the one that Putin and the North Korean leader will attend, among others.
In addition to meeting today with Xi, Putin held a bilateral encounter with Modi yesterday, who described the end of the war in Ukraine as “a plea of all humanity” and greeted the “recent efforts” to achieve peace, trusting that all parties adopt a “constructive” position.
Meanwhile, in his speech yesterday before the OCS, Putin said that it is necessary to “eliminate the causes of the conflict to achieve a lasting and sustainable solution,” and pointed out about his last meeting with the US President, that the “understanding achieved by the road to peace.”
For its part, XI launched messages that questioned Western hegemony and defended that OCS must be “a multipolarity pillar and democratization of international relations.”
The organization also rejected the “internships in internal affairs” using human rights as “pretext” and condemned “shocks to international trade”, in a statement signed by the leaders of member countries.
Meanwhile, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, crossed Tuesday by train La Frontera with China towards Beijing to participate in Wednesday’s military parade, reported the propaganda medium Voice of Koreaaccompanied by leaders of the ruler of the party of workers and senior officials, including the Foreign Minister, Choe Son-Hui.
Kim’s trip to China, the first since 2019, also seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing, which had deteriorated for strengthening military cooperation between the hermetic Peninsular country and Moscow, which was consolidated with an agreement that includes the mutual military assistance clause in case of aggression and with the mobilization of North Korean troops to participate in the invasion of Ukraine.
