South African President Rama Tshada confirmed that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit South Africa in the end of the month and attend the BRICS Summit.
According to Bloomberg report, Laima Pao Sa issued a brief statement on Monday (August 7) to announce the above news.The statement said that Lama Tshados and Xi Jinping would meet in Belle Thalia, the capital of South Africa on August 22.According to a statement issued by the Presidential Palace in South Africa, the two will talk about bilateral relations and sign a series of memorandums of cooperation.
This will be the first visit to South Africa since 2018, and it is also his second visit this year.He visited Moscow in March this year and had talks with Russian President Putin.
After meeting the meeting with Lama PC, Xi Jinping will go to Johannesburg to attend the BRICS Summit at the BRICS Summit from August 22nd to 24th.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Xi Jinping had a contract with Lama Tosha in June this year. The two exchanged opinions on bilateral relations and the preparation of the BRICS Summit.Xi Jinping said that China supports South Africa as the chairman of the BRICS value and runs various activities of this year's BRICS cooperation.Lama Pao Sa said that South Africa will deepen communication and coordination with BRICS members such as China to strengthen the cooperation of BRICS.
Lama Tsata told the media in July this year that the 15th summit of the BRICS countries will discuss issues that accept new members.He revealed that many countries have applied to join the BRICS cooperation mechanism, which will become one of the main issues of this summit.
It is understood that countries that have recently been applied to join the BRICS cooperation mechanism, including Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Nigeria and Ethiopia.
Bloomberg reported that South African Foreign Minister Pan Duor said at a online briefing on Monday, "I don't think we treat the BRICS countries as pro -Russian or anti -Western organizations.Such ideas are extremely wrong. We have repeatedly stated that South Africa's trading partners in the West are very important to promote the economic development of South Africa. "
China and the United States are the two largest trading partners in South Africa.At the time of the heating up in the U.S. -China science and technology war, Washington put pressure on South Africa, asking them to abandon the use of Chinese technology giant Huawei communication equipment to curb the growth of Chinese technology.The United States has also criticized South Africa's non -alignment in the Russia and Ukraine War.