Putin goes to China. He will be a guy of the parade at Tiananmen Square

Vladimir Putin will meet next week in China with the leader of this country XI Jinping – the Kremlin adviser Yuri Ruszakov said on Friday. Putin will take part in the peak of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and will be a “main guest” during the military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

– President Putin will be in China, Russia's largest trading partner, from August 31 to September 3 – said Uszakow at a press conference.

The first two days from Putin's four -day trip to China will be devoted to the peak of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SZOW), which will take place in Tianjin. Then the Russian leader will go to Beijing, where he will talk with XI Jinping. In the capital of China, he will also take part on September 3 in the military parade at Tiananmen Square, which is to commemorate the end of World War II after the formal capitulation of Japan.

According to Uszaków Putin, the parade is to be a “main guest” and will sit on the right of the XI. The left side was intended for North Korea leader Kim Jong Una.

During the 70 -minute parade on the 80th anniversary of the “Victory in the Chinese People's War against Japanese aggression in the world anti -fascist war” over 10,000 march through the streets of Beijing. soldiers from 45 military formations. The Chinese army will present the latest equipment, such as fighters, missile defense systems and hypersonic weapons.

Uszakow also announced that Putin in China will take a number of bilateral meetings with the leaders of other countries who will be present there. Among them is the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, President of Iran Masud Pezeszkian and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Putin's meeting with Kim is not yet confirmed, but efforts to organize such a conversation are underway – said Uszakow.

The Russian delegation will include two members of the Russian government – Foreign Minister Sergei Ławrow and Minister of Defense Andrey Biełousow, as well as the president of the central bank Elwira Nabiulin, President of Gazprom Aleksiej Miller and the heads of the largest Russian banks and companies. There will also be Uszakow.

Presenting the Putin's visit plan from China, Wydzakow also announced that Gazprom's Russian energy giant would sign a “important” contract with the Chinese CNPC corporation. However, he did not provide details.

Reuters reminds that Russia is interested in increasing the exports of oil and gas to Asia after losing access to most European markets due to Western sanctions in response to an attack on Ukraine.

According to Reuters, China would like to buy more Russian gas through the existing pipeline Siberia 1, which connected Siberia with China in 2019. Conversations between Moscow and Beijing regarding the construction of the second thread of the pipeline have not had effect so far.

Over the past three years, since Russia's start of the invasion of Ukraine on a full scale, cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in many areas has been strengthened, including military cooperation. Chinese communist authorities declare their neutral attitude towards the war, while they did not condemn Russian aggression. (PAP)

ZM/ Kar/