Shoigu offered to meet with Wang Yi, and after receiving the invitation, the Chinese side immediately went north to visit Russia and support each other after the meeting.
On September 10, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Russia and met with Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu in St. Petersburg. This was Shoigu's first meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi since he took office.
Wang Yi said that China supports Russia's chairmanship of BRICS and will work together to deepen mutual trust and cooperation among BRICS countries and create a new situation in BRICS cooperation.
Wang Yi met with Shoigu
The Russian side immediately expressed its gratitude for China's support. At the same time, Shoigu also expressed his support for China's chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and its efforts to make the SCO more cohesive and inject stability into the world.
As both BRICS and SCO members, it is only natural for China and Russia to support and help each other. It can be said that China and Russia have truly put into practice the principle of "partnership and non-alignment."
Specifically, Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Russia was mainly at the invitation of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Shoigu to attend the 14th BRICS Meeting of High Representatives for National Security Affairs in St. Petersburg.
As a multilateral organization seeking cooperation and common development, the BRICS countries need a relatively stable international security environment to ensure that trade cooperation among member countries can be carried out normally.
BRICS
As the host of this BRICS summit, Russia has arranged for Shoigu to be responsible for docking with China, which shows that Putin has great trust and importance to him, and many important foreign visits have been carried out by Shoigu.
For example, during the inauguration of Iran's new president this year, after the "beheading" attack on the Iranian capital Tehran, the possibility of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict spilling over sharply, the situation in the Middle East is on the verge of breaking out, and Iran's security measures are widely questioned.
Shoigu led a high-level delegation of Russia to Tehran, the capital of Iran, to pay a visit to Tehran, supporting Iran with concrete actions, and at the same time sending Tehran a "reassuring pill", stressing that Russia is ready to carry out all-round cooperation with Iran in regional affairs.
It can be said that this foreign visit is of vital significance to the relations between Russia and Iran, and Putin's arrangement of Shoigu's visit is also a very ingenious arrangement.
Shoigu visited Iran
Now, Shoigu will once again take on the important task of convening a meeting on security affairs with senior officials of the BRICS member states to exchange views on regional security affairs. On the other hand, it is also to make political preparations for the 16th BRICS summit.
Russia attaches great importance to the BRICS summit and has extended invitations to all member states to participate in the BRICS summit as early as possible, and even some countries that are not member states have also been invited by the Russian side to participate in the summit as partners.
From Russia's point of view, this summit is not only a "diplomatic show," but also a sign of Russia's strategic development.
It means that while dealing with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Russia will focus on developing its own economy, and Asia will be a priority direction for Russia to explore cooperation.
Sino-Russian relations
As Russia's largest trading partner at present, it is logical for China and Russia to expand cooperation, and more exchanges and contacts between the two high-level leaders can deepen mutual trust and continuously enrich the strategic connotation of bilateral relations.