Serbian president to be among world leaders who will attend China's Victory Day celebrations on September 3

Vucic and Xi Jinping during a previous meeting in Belgrade; Photo: Tanjug/Nemanja Jovanovic

Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Hong Lei said today that 26 foreign leaders will attend a large military parade in Beijing on September 3 to mark China's Victory Day, while Tanjug has learned from sources close to the Presidency that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be among them.

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China is organizing a large military parade on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War (WW2), which will be attended by presidents, prime ministers, heads of parliaments, deputy prime ministers, and top officials from dozens of countries, as well as heads of international organizations, all invited by the Chinese government, Xinhua is reporting.

In addition to the Serbian president, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Slovak Prime Minister Roberto Fico, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyevv, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel have also been invited.

Other foreign leaders on this list are Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, Vietnamese President Luong Cuong, General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, and Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh.

Beijing also invited Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Min Aung Hlaing, and Acting President of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)