The Chinese embassy in Russia has strongly protested the treatment of five Chinese nationals who were denied entry to Russia despite "general friendly relations" between the two countries.
"The five Chinese citizens who tried to enter the country last month by driving their car from Kazakhstan were detained for four hours, finally being denied entry when their visas were cancelled," the embassy reported on its WeChat social media account, qualifying what happened. as a "brutal" act. An unusual terminology in view of the relations that both giants currently maintain.
After what happened, as reported by the Reuters agency, diplomatic representatives of the embassy met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian border agencies, "clearly pointing out that the brutal and excessive application of the law by Russia in this incident seriously harmed the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens," the publication reads.
Russian officials, for their part, reiterated that there are no discriminatory policies against Chinese citizens and specified that it was all because "the destination that appeared in your visa application did not coincide with your actual destination."
Beijing and Moscow have repeatedly put on display their strong relations since Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin announced a "limitless" partnership in February 2022, when the Russian president visited China for the opening of the Winter Olympics days before. to launch the invasion of Ukraine.
China, for its part, confirmed yesterday Friday the dispatch of a senior official to Saudi Arabia for the talks proposed to seek a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine in which Kyiv participates although Moscow does not.
