Beijing will visit Belarusian leader Lukashenko in China on the 28th
The President of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko, will pay a state visit to China from February 28 to March 2 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. This was announced by the Beijing Foreign Ministry. “At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the President of Belarus Aleksander Lukashenko will pay a state visit to China from February 28 to March 2,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said. “China is ready to work with Minsk to deepen mutual political trust,” Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said in a telephone conversation with his Belarusian counterpart Serghei Aleinik yesterday, Beijing said today. Xi and Lukashenko, the latter a close Moscow ally, met at an international summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, last year, and the two announced an “unconditional” partnership.