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Belarus president and firm Russia ally Lukashenko to visit China

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, left, and China's President Xi Jinping. Lukashenko is due to visit China on February 28, the Chinese foreign ministry said [File: Natalia Kolesnikova and Noel Celis/AFP]

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has praised China’s predominant role in world affairs saying that no one could contain its growth and no problem in the world can be resolved without Beijing’s input.

The authoritarian leader of Belarus – a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin – also accused the United States of staging a “show” in its recent shooting down of a Chinese balloon that Washington said was gathering intelligence and which Beijing said was monitoring weather.

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