Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Federation’s Security Council, will visit China from September 18 to 19 for the 17th round of China-Russia strategic security consultations and the seventh meeting of the China-Russia law-enforcement and security cooperation mechanism, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Sunday.
Patrushev’s visit is at the invitation of Yang Jiechi, member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee’s Political Bureau and director of the Office of the CPC Central Committee’s Foreign Affairs Commission, and Guo Shengkun, member of the CPC Central Committee’s Political Bureau, member of the CPC Central Committee’s Secretariat, and Secretary of the CPC Central Committee’s Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Xinhua reported.
