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Friday 3rd March 2000 9.30pm gmt
China, Russia Stress Global Stability, Regional Security
China and Russia vowed to make joint efforts to strengthen global strategic
stability and
regional security in a joint communique released in Moscow Wednesday. "In
the current
situation, maintaining global strategic stability is of special significance
to keeping world
peace," said the communique, published after a meeting between acting
Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan in the
Kremlin.
Regarding the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty reached in 1972 as the
basis of
strategic stability, the two countries highly valued their joint efforts at
the United Nations
and other international organizations to achieve comprehensive and strict
implementation
of the convention.
They reaffirmed that the two nations share common viewpoints on guaranteeing
security
and stability in their peripheral regions, such as Asia-Pacific, Central
Asia and South
Asia, expressing common desire to accelerate the cooperation by all means in
the
framework of the "Shanghai Five."
Both China and Russia support the active efforts by Asia- Pacific
international
organizations and some Asian countries to preserve regional security and
create non-
nuclear weapon zones, said the communique.
It said the two countries will make full preparation for the next regular
meeting of the
premiers in order to achieve more practical results as both agreed that
high-level
exchanges have an irreplaceable role in pushing forward bilateral strategic
partnership.
The strategic partnership between China and Russia, not directed against any
third
country, conforms to the fundamental interests of the two countries and also
helps boost
the progress of a multi-polar world as well as the establishment of a just
and reasonable
new world order, said the communique.
It stressed that any attempt...
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