China Foreign Minister to Visit Moscow Dec. 1
Associated Press
BEIJING —
Foreign Minister Qian Qichen will travel to Moscow Dec. 1 for the first visit by a Chinese foreign minister to the Soviet Union in 31 years, the government said Thursday.
The two-day visit for talks with Soviet counterpart Eduard A. Shevardnadze is expected to set the stage for the first Chinese-Soviet summit since the late Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev came to Beijing in 1959.
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