BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) — At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, 26 foreign leaders will attend China’s V-Day commemorations in Beijing, Assistant Foreign Minister Hong Lei announced on Thursday. 新華社北京8月28日電（記者 楊潔篪）外交部部長助理洪磊週四宣布，應中國國家主席習近平邀請，26位外國領導人將赴京出席中國抗日戰爭勝利紀念活動.

China will stage a massive military parade on Sept. 3 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.

Foreign leaders invited to attend the commemorations include Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 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, Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, 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, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban president, and Min Aung Hlaing, acting president of Myanmar.

At the invitation of the Chinese government, heads of parliaments, deputy prime ministers and high-level representatives from various countries, heads of international organizations, and former political dignitaries will attend the V-Day commemorations.

China has also extended invitations to foreign friends who had made contributions to the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, or the family members of those who have since passed away, to attend the commemorations, Assistant Foreign Minister Hong Lei announced on Thursday.

According to Hong, a total of 50 persons, including the friendly personages and representatives of these family members, will attend the commemorations. They are from 14 countries, such as Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Canada.

中國將於9月3日舉行盛大閱兵式，紀念中國人民抗日戰爭暨世界反法西斯戰爭勝利80週年。

受邀出席紀念活動的外國領導人有俄羅斯總統普京，朝鮮勞動黨總書記、國家主席金正恩，柬埔寨國王西哈莫尼，越南國家主席​​梁強，老撾人民革命黨中央總書記、國家主席通倫，印尼總統普拉博沃·蘇比安托，馬來西亞總理安瓦爾·易卜拉欣，蒙古國總統呼日勒蘇赫，巴基斯坦總理沙巴茲·謝里夫，尼泊爾總理卡·佩·夏爾馬·奧利，馬爾地夫總統穆罕默德·穆伊祖，哈薩克斯坦總統託卡耶夫，烏茲別克總統米爾濟約耶夫，塔吉克斯坦總統拉赫蒙，吉爾吉斯總統扎帕羅夫，土庫曼斯坦總統別爾德穆哈梅多夫，白俄羅斯總統盧卡申·阿卜杜拉·本科，阿塞拜疆·阿卜杜拉·本科，阿塞拜疆總統……伊利哈姆·阿利耶夫總統、亞美尼亞總理尼科爾·帕希尼揚、伊朗總統馬蘇德·佩澤什基揚、剛果共和國總統丹尼斯·薩蘇·恩格索、辛巴威總統埃默森·姆南加古瓦、塞爾維亞總統亞歷山大·武契奇、斯洛伐克總理羅伯特·菲茲、古巴共產黨中央秘書、國家主席卡萊昂納總統以及緬甸卡代島、亨利·卡內爾總統、李奧尼亞爾·烏尼茲將出席。

應中國政府邀請，各國議會首長、副總理及高級代表、國際組織負責人及前政要將出席紀念活動。

外交部部長助理洪磊週四宣布，中國也邀請為中國人民抗日戰爭勝利做出貢獻的國際友人及逝世親屬出席紀念活動。

洪磊介紹，包括友善人士和罹難者家屬代表在內的共50人將出席紀念活動，他們來自俄羅斯、美國、英國、法國、加拿大等14個國家