the Russian Federation and China will continue to work in strategic conjunction in the UN Security Council, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), BRICS, Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) and a group of twenty (G20). This was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with the Chinese colleague Van and during negotiations held in the fields of the G20 ministerial meeting in South Africa
“We will continue to work in strategic conjunction and in the UN, especially in the Security Council, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in the BRICS, ASEAN and, of course, in the group of twenty, which is an important step in promoting the principles of multipolarity and the step of getting used to our Western colleagues to an honest , fair, equal and mutually insistent work, ”the minister said.
Lavrov noted that the beginning of the New Year was “very productive” for the relationship of the Russian Federation and the PRC.
Relations of the Russian Federation and China “steel and remain an increasingly significant factor in the stabilization of the international situation, preventing its rolling to a total confrontation,” Lavrov said.
“There is no doubt that the further work in the course of 2025 will bring the results on the basis of the tasks that the president of the [Russian Federation] Putin and the chairman of [PRC] Xi Jinping, including during the recent thorough New Year’s contacts,” – Added by the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.