Beijing, April 15 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday held talks with Chinese President XI Jinping amid West Asia crisis and blamed Western powers for aggravating the international situation.

"We held negotiations with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The negotiations covered a wide range of issues, largely our bilateral relations, but first of all, for obvious reasons, international issues, especially since the international situation, which is now being aggravated by the actions of our Western colleagues, in Ukraine, in Latin America, in the Strait of Hormuz, and in other parts of our shared Eurasian continent with China, is having a direct impact on how bilateral relations between states are developing, including, ...