Russia’s security chief begins two-day visit to China on Sunday

BEIJING (Reuters) – Russian Safety Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev will maintain safety consultations and conferences throughout a two-day go to to China beginning Sunday, China’s international ministry stated.

Patrushev will attend the seventeenth spherical of China’s Russia strategic safety consultations and the seventh assembly of the China-Russia regulation enforcement safety cooperation throughout his go to, the international ministry stated in a press release launched on its web site on Sunday.

The conferences come after Chinese language President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held face-to-face talks in Uzbekistan on Thursday, their first because the outbreak of the Ukraine struggle.

Russia’s struggle in Ukraine has killed tens of 1000’s of individuals and pushed the worldwide financial system into uncharted waters with hovering meals and vitality costs amid the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West because the Chilly Struggle.

China has kept away from condemning Russia’s operation towards Ukraine or calling it an “invasion” consistent with the Kremlin, which casts the struggle as “a particular navy operation”.

(Reporting by Martin Quin Pollard; Modifying by Lincoln Feast.)