Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, met in St. Petersburg for the 14th meeting of the BRICS high-ranking officials responsible for security matters and national security advisors today with host Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu. Wang told Shoigu that China is willing to strengthen strategic communication with Russia and continuously enrich the strategic connotations of bilateral ties. Wang said that given unprecedented changes in a century, the stable and healthy development of China-Russia relations is fundamentally due to the guidance of the two countries’ heads of state.
Besides strengthening strategic communication with Russia, Wang stressed that China is willing to give full play to the role of the China-Russia strategic security consultation mechanism and the BRICS Meeting of High Representatives on National Security mechanism, and continuously enrich the strategic connotations of China-Russia relations.
