Hu Pledges to Further Promote Sino-Russian Ties

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Hu Pledges to Further Promote Sino-Russian Ties

Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday pledged greater efforts to develop long-term good-neighborly relations and promote cooperation of mutual benefit between his country and Russia.

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Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday pledged greater efforts to develop long-term good-neighborly relations and promote cooperation of mutual benefit between his country and Russia.

Addressing the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Hu said the Sino-Russian relations have maintained good momentum in development through the two countries' joint efforts over the past decade.

"The Russia-China Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, signed in 2001, has ushered in a new era of strategic partnership of cooperation between the two countries and will serve as the guideline for the development of bilateral ties in the new century," Hu said.

Developing long-term good-neighborly relations and promoting cooperation of mutual benefit in accordance with the spirit and principles of the treaty, he said, are in the vital interests of both countries and peoples and conform to the trend of peace and development.

"China and Russia have benefited from the smooth development of bilateral ties by successfully resolving the border issues left over from history and by increasing their trade volume from 6 billion US dollars in the 1990s to 12 billion dollars last year," Hu noted.

He stressed that China has been consistently following an independent foreign policy of peace and is ready to carry out friendly exchanges and cooperation with the peoples of all countries in the world in all fields. Even when it becomes strong and prosperous in the future, China will never seek hegemony and military expansion, he said. Instead, he pointed out, the country will forever serve as a staunch force for maintaining world peace and promoting common development.

The Chinese president, who arrived here on Monday for a three-day state visit to Russia, pointed out that China has joined efforts with the other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in promoting regional cooperation and cracking down on ethnic separatism, religious extremism and international terrorism.

The Sino-Russian ties is of special importance in China's foreign relations. The new Chinese leadership, which attaches great importance to the Sino-Russian relations, is willing to cooperate with the Russian side in fully implementing the Russia-China Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and promoting the all-round strategic partnership of cooperation in political, economic, scientific, cultural and other fields, he said.

To ensure long-term good-neighborly relations and achieve common development, the Chinese president proposed the following measures of cooperation between China and Russia:

-- Strengthening mutual support and deepening mutual trust;

-- Broadening cooperation of mutual benefit and achieving a win-win situation;

-- Expanding friendly exchanges and developing traditional friendship;

-- Increasing consultations and coordination and promoting peaceful development.

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