China's foreign minister to visit South Africa, Russia

BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will pay official visits to South Africa and Russia from Feb. 17 to 23, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.

Spokesman Hong Lei said that Yang was invited by South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, respectively.

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