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Hu Jintao Meets Russian Guests
Chinese Vice-President Meets Russian Guest
Chinese vice-president Hu Jintao met in Beijing Monday afternoon with Anatoly Vasilijevich Kvashnin, chief of general staff of Russia's armed forces.
Hu, also vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, said that President Jiang Zemin and President Vladimir Putin have held a successful meeting in Shanghai, a significant event in the history of Sino-Russian relations which will promote the development of a bilateral relationship.
He pointed out that over the past years, Sino-Russian strategic cooperative partnership relations have been developing smoothly with prominent results. Top leaders of both sides have had close exchanges, and economic and trade cooperation as well as local and non-government exchanges have been constantly expanding.
He said that the two sides have also had fruitful cooperation in international affairs. The most important is that President Jiang Zemin successfully visited Russia and signed the bilateral treaty on good-neighborly friendship and cooperation, setting a sound legal basis for the long-term development of Sino-Russian relations.
Recently, he said, Premier Zhu Rongji made a successful visit to Russia and reached consensus with Russian prime minister on the implementation of the agreements between the two heads of State and on reinforcing bilateral cooperation. All these are strongly pushing toward a healthy, lasting and stable development of Sino- Russian strategic cooperative relations in the new century.
Hu stressed that China and Russia are the biggest neighbors of each other, and are both permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Under present complicated and changing international conditions, the two States and militaries in China and Russia are stepping up negotiations and cooperation to jointly fight terrorism and other evil forces in accordance with the fundamental interest of the two peoples. It is also conducive to protecting and promoting regional and global peace, stability and development. China is willing to cooperate with Russia in this respect.
Kvashnin said that China is a great country and the Chinese army is a great army. His visit to China is fruitful, and the two sides fully exchanged views on issues of common concern, which will help promote mutual understanding.
He said that Russia and China have the same or similar views on the development of international situation. The two sides are willing to step up cooperation in fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism, and jointly protect regional and global peace and stability.
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