{"id":50647,"date":"2024-04-08T19:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50647"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:50:05","slug":"top-russia-diplomat-arrives-in-china-for-official-visit-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50647","title":{"rendered":"Top Russia diplomat arrives in China for official visit: ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China for an official visit on Monday, his ministry said, as the two countries look to strengthen diplomatic ties as Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine grinds on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The foreign ministry announced Lavrov had touched down in Beijing in a post on X Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He will spend two days in the Chinese capital and hold meetings with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, according to a previous readout from the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An in-depth exchange of points of view is expected on a certain number of &#8216;burning subjects&#8217;,&#8221; the statement said, citing &#8220;the Ukrainian crisis and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry added that the two men would &#8220;discuss a wide range of questions linked to bilateral cooperation, as well as cooperation on the international scene&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov last visited Beijing in October for an international forum on Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s flagship Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China for an official visit on Monday, his ministry said, as the two countries look to strengthen diplomatic ties as Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine grinds on. The foreign ministry announced Lavrov had touched down in Beijing in a post on X Monday morning. He will spend two days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1078],"class_list":["post-50647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-top-russia-diplomat-arrives-in-china-for-official-visit-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}