Interfax Newswire
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he highly values Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's efforts to cultivate relations between Russia and China.
"We highly appreciate the level of relations between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. Chinese leader Jiang Zemin plays a great, I would say, vital role in this. He personally pays considerable attention to the development of contacts between Russia and China," Putin commented in an interview with leading Chinese media outlets.
The Chinese leader's official visit to Russia will be the key event in Russian-Chinese relations this year, Putin said. "Both Russian and Chinese colleagues are already preparing for this visit, and we are sure this will be a new and very good incentive for the development of bilateral relations in all spheres," the Russian president reported.
Russia and China attach particular importance to the coordination of their efforts in the sphere of global security and the creation of a modern, democratic world order in a multi- polar world, Putin noted. "We have numerous common mutual interests with China, and we consistently coordinate our efforts in the world arena, which is a very notable contribution on the part of Russia and China to the cause of international peace and international security," the president emphasized.
Touching on a treaty of friendship and cooperation that Russia and China are preparing to sign, he described it as a fundamental document, "since it defines principles of interaction between China and Russia as friendly countries in the main areas of our cooperation: the border issue, strategic interaction in the sphere of global security, cooperation on humanitarian issues, and the sphere of military and economic cooperation."
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13th June 2001, 23:31
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