RUSSIA: CHINA'S STATE COUNCILLOR TANG JIAXUAN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN IN MOSCOW
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RUSSIA: CHINA'S STATE COUNCILLOR TANG JIAXUAN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN IN MOSCOW
- Title: RUSSIA: CHINA'S STATE COUNCILLOR TANG JIAXUAN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN IN MOSCOW
- Date: 2nd February 2005
- Summary: (BN14) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 2, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WS: KREMLIN AND RED SQUARE 0.06 2. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ENTERS THE ROOM / PUTIN AND TANG JIAXUAN, A MEMBER OF CHINA'S STATE COUNCIL, SHAKING HANDS AND POSING FOR CAMERAS 0.32 3. PUTIN, TANG AND MEMBERS OF DELEGATIONS TAKING SEATS 0.45 4. PUTIN ADDRESSING CHINESE DELEGATION, HEAD OF THE RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL IGOR IVANOV SITTING NEXT TO PUTIN 0.51 5. WIDE OF THE RUSSIAN DELEGATION AT TALKS 0.57 6. TANG LISTENING TO PUTIN 1.05 7. WS: CHINESE DELEGATION AT TALKS 1.11 8. MEDIA 1.14 9. SCU: TANG ADDRESSING THE RUSSIAN DELEGATION 1.22 10. WIDE OF TALKS TAKING PLACE 1.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 17th February 2005 12:00
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
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- Story Text: Oil and military cooperation on the agenda as
China's Tang meets Russian President Putin.
Oil and military issues were expected to top the
agenda when China's State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan met
Russian President Vldimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on
Wednesday (February 2), the latest in a string of
high-level visits reflecting closer ties between the giant
neighbours.
Tang, who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday (February 1),
is on a four-day visit to Russia. His arrival in Moscow
coincided with the announcement that China lent Russia 6
billion U.S. dollars to help the Kremlin renationalise the
key unit of oil major YUKOS, underpinning oil-hungry
Beijing's efforts to tap into Russia's huge energy
business.
China's diplomacy is being increasingly driven by its
desire to diversity its sources of energy imports to feed
its booming economy, and the visit follows Moscow's
decision last month to build an oil pipeline to the Pacific
rather than to China.
Analysts said China would still be looking at ways to
tap the line.
The military relationship between the two countries has
also been growing, with Russia the main arms and
weapons-technology supplier to China's growing military
machine, and with common interests in fighting terror
threats in their border regions.
A Russian military delegation is in closed-door talks
with Chinese officials this week, with the two likely to
discuss the joint military exercise, set for August or
September. Fighting rebels has been cited as the reason for
the exercise. The two sides issued a joint declaration
during Putin's visit, pinpointing rebels in Russia's
Chechnya and in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang province
as "part of international terrorism".
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