“It was a very warm, constructive, partner and allied meeting,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Peskov added that the negotiations were substantive, the parties focused on issues of bilateral relations and trade and economic cooperation.

Earlier it became known that Russia and China, in a joint statement, called on the United States to abandon plans to deploy intermediate and shorter-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region (APR) and in Europe.

Moscow and Beijing intend to strengthen coordination on this issue.