Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, October 16, 2002
People's Daily and RIA Novosti Sign Agreement
Alexei Zhidakov, RIA Novosti board chairman, and Xu Zhongtian, Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) president, met in Beijing on Oct.15 to sign an agreement on partnership and information exchanges.
Alexei Zhidakov, RIA Novosti board chairman, and Xu Zhongtian, Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) president, met in Beijing on Oct.15 to sign an agreement on partnership and information exchanges. The signatories pledge, in particular, to step up equal and mutually beneficial partnership for information exchanges. Both companies' periodicals will publish news items and articles received from each other.
The agreement envisages delegation exchanges, and cooperated photograph and television information and advertising.
"The agreement logically continues both nations' efforts for closer friendship, partnership and goodneighbourly relations," said Mikhail Lesin, Russia's Minister of the Press and Television and Radio Broadcasting, who attended the ceremony.