Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, December 02, 2002
Chinese President on Jiang-Putin Talks
Chinese President Jiang and Russian President Putin met with press Monday in Beijing. More than 100 reporters gathered in the Great Hall of the People for the event. "China and Russia will be good neighbors, friends and partners forever", Jiang said.
"China and Russia will be good neighbors, friends and partners forever", Chinese President Jiang Zemin said Monday in Beijing.
Jiang made the remarks to the press following his meeting with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
China and Russia will continue their efforts to ensure the implementation of strategic concepts such as those contained in the China-Russia good-neighborly treaty of friendship and cooperation under the new situation for the continuous growth of bilateral ties, said Jiang.
Jiang described his talks with Putin as "rich in content" and said that he and Putin "fully summarized the smooth evolution of the Sino-Russian relationship over the past decade and laid out a blueprint for the future of bilateral ties"
The two heads of state also had "an in-depth exchange of views on the current international and regional situation and reached broad consensus," he said.