Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir
Putin, signed a joint statement on Tuesday, pledging to further
strengthen the two nations' strategic partnership of cooperation
and contribute to the interests of the two peoples and security and
stability in the region.
Chinese and Russian officials also signed an agreement on marine
cooperation and a general agreement on buyer's export credit
between Russia's Bank for Foreign Trade and China Construction
Bank.
Hu
and Putin told reporters after the signing ceremony that they will
work together to inherit the past and usher in the future, so as to
enter a new era of bilateral ties based on the good-neighborly
cooperation between China and Russia.
In
the morning, President Hu paid a visit to the Great Patriotic War
Memorial Complex in Moscow.
(Xinhua News Agency May 28, 2003)