China’s foreign minister hosts Russian deputy foreign minister

Islamabad

ANKARA:Chinese Foreign Minister (FM) Qin Gang held talks with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko in Beijing on Sunday, state-run broadcaster CGTN reported.

The two sides exchanged views on “Sino-Russian relations and international and regional issues of common concern,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement.

No further details of the meeting between the two diplomats were provided.

The meeting comes a day after Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner paramilitary group, called off his advance on Moscow and will leave Russia for Belarus.