Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, September 19, 2003
Chinese premier, Russian PM to discuss energy resource cooperation
The imminent eighth regular meeting between the Chinese premier and Russian prime minister will make an appraisal of the overall Sino-Russian relations and plan further cooperation, including on energy resources, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Thursday.
The imminent eighth regular meeting between the Chinese premier and Russian prime minister will make an appraisal of the overall Sino-Russian relations and plan further cooperation, including on energy resources, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Thursday.
Noting that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will visit China from Sept. 24 to 25 to meet and confer with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, the spokesman said that before that, Ma Kai, Chinese minister in charge of the State Development and Reform Commission, had attended an important meeting in Moscow, in which chief officials of both countries' energy resource administrations had an in-depth exchange of views on energy resource cooperation.
The two sides also reached consensus on further cooperation in projects like the Sino-Russian crude oil pipeline project, based on principles affirmed in the joint statement signed in May this year, the spokesman added.