???????? Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi (Moscow, December 2, 2025).

?? Mr Wang Yi,
My dear friend,
Colleagues, friends,

I am delighted to have a meeting with you once again.

We had a lot of work today at the Security Council of the Russian Federation. We appreciate the fact that our Chinese friends have been paying so much attention, just as we do, in fulfilling the objectives as set forth by President Vladimir Putin and President of China Xi Jinping.

This year, our leaders met on May 9 in Moscow to mark 80 years of Victory over Nazi Germany, as well as on September 3 in Beijing as part of celebrations marking 80 years of Victory over militarist Japan. These meetings helped us further expand the foundation for further developing our strategic cooperation and multi-faceted partnership.

We held a special meeting of the Ministry’s Board a while ago to review progress in fulfilling the objectives articulated by our leaders during those two summits.

The relevant agencies within the Russian Government’s economic bloc are working on matters dealing with reinforcing our cooperation in trade, investment and humanitarian affairs.

Our goal primarily consists of ensuring that we maintain a high level of coordination on international policy matters, including strategic stability, and consolidating security for the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. This also relates to the way we work together within international structures such as the United Nations, its Security Council, the #SCO, #BRICS and #G20.

We are living in a rapidly changing world. This is why the more often we meet, the more effective we can be in working together on strengthening diplomatic ties between Russia and China for enabling our two countries to promote their national interests.

I hope that today’s meeting will offer us an opportunity to have a trust-based conversation – this is the way friends must communicate – to go over all these matters and outline specific steps for moving toward fulfilling our Leaders’ agreements.

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