Putin to visit China after skipping US: Report

May 12, 2012 00:20

Russia's newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin will make what could be his first foreign trip to China next month after deciding to skip the G8 summit in the US, a diplomatic source said today.

Putin's June 5-7 visit will include talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao and attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, the source told Russian news agencies. Putin, sworn in for a third term as president on Monday after spending the past four years as premier, had earlier informed Obama he was turning down an invitation to visit Camp David for the G8 summit next week.

The US visit would have included ice-breaking talks with Obama, but the Kremlin said Putin would be busy putting the finishing touches on his new government in Moscow. The Kremlin has not announced any foreign engagements for Putin before the China visit is scheduled, meaning that Beijing could in a move of great symbolism be his first foreign destination for the third presidential term.

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