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Xi Jinping, Iranian president will visit Russia in 2025

"As for concrete bilateral events, I can say that the appropriate plans are actively being drawn up," ambassador Igor Morgulov told RIA.

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Moscow, Russia
Fri, December 27, 2024

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Xi Jinping, Iranian president will visit Russia in 2025 In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states leaders' summit in Astana on July 3, 2024. (AFP/Pavel Volkov)

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hina's President Xi Jinping will visit Russia in 2025, Russia's state-run RIA news agency quoted Moscow's ambassador to Beijing as saying early on Friday.

"As for concrete bilateral events, I can say that the appropriate plans are actively being drawn up," ambassador Igor Morgulov told RIA.

"What can be said that is no secret, in terms of priority, is that the chairman of the People's Republic of China is expected in Russia next year."

China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation from Reuters.

Putin visited China in February 2022, proclaiming a "no limits" partnership days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. He was in Beijing again last May, after his re-election by a landslide, welcoming a "new era" of relations focusing on opposition to US policy.

Xi was received in the Kremlin as a "dear friend" in 2023 after he obtained an unprecedented third term in office.

Morgulov also told RIA that China, which has refrained from condemning Russia's 34-month-old war in Ukraine, understood the basis for the conflict "inasmuch as they are coming up against many of the same challenges -- the US and its allies are boosting pressure on China in the Asia-Pacific region".

NATO, he said, is "devising plans to move its military infrastructure" into the region.

Russia and China had to respond to US policy jointly, he said.

"In the international arena, it is up to our countries to respond further with a 'dual counter-action' to the 'dual deterrence' which the West is trying to pursue with regard to Russia and China," RIA quoted him as saying.

Meanwhile, Iranian media reported on Friday that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on January 17 to sign a cooperation deal.

"The president will visit Russia on January 17 and the cooperation agreement between the two countries will be signed during the visit," Tasnim news agency reported, quoting Iran's ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali. 

Russia and Iran are both under international sanctions that restrict trade, but they have forged strong ties in various sectors, including military cooperation.  

Ukraine and its allies in many Western capitals have accused Tehran of supplying Moscow with weapons for use in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Iran has repeatedly denied the allegations.

On Monday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Transport Vitaly Savelyev was in Tehran and met Pezeshkian. The two discussed the construction of the Rasht-Astara railway, which runs through Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia.

The railway is part of a larger project, the International North-South Transport Corridor, intended to connect India, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan and other countries.   

The two presidents last met during the BRICS summit in Kazan in October.

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