
On May 13, 2013, Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping met in the Foreign Ministry with Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Lukyanov, who is in transit in Beijing for his business trip to India. The two sides exchanged views on the preparations for the ninth round of strategic security consultation between China and Russia, the establishment of a cooperative mechanism between the two countries on law enforcement and security, as well as the Central Asian situation, Afghanistan, Syria and other issues.
