Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang received Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko in Beijing on Sunday, China said, the first public meeting between diplomats from the two countries since the armed rebellion of the Wagner Group.
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The two men exchanged “on Sino-Russian relations and international and regional issues of common interest”, indicates the press release from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without further details and without specifying whether the events of the previous day in Russia had been discussed.