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02.14 EST
Belarus president Lukashenko to visit China
The
Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, will arrive in China on 28 February
for a state visit, the Chinese foreign ministry has said.
Spokesperson
Hua Chunying said Lukashenko will visit until 2 March “at the invitation of
Chinese president Xi Jinping”.
Lukashenko
is a close ally of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, and has backed Moscow’s
invasion of Ukraine.
Belarus is
dependent on its neighbour financially and politically.
China is
willing to work with Belarus to deepen mutual political trust, the Chinese
foreign minister, Qin Gang, told his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Aleinik,
during a phone conversation on Friday, according to a Chinese foreign ministry
statement.
In
September last year, Xi and Lukashenko announced an “all-weather” strategic
partnership, when the two met in the Uzbek capital Samarkand.
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