RUSSIA: CHINESE PREMIER ZHU RONGI BEGINS SERIES OF MEETINGS DURING VISIT

Record ID: 648159

  • Title: RUSSIA: CHINESE PREMIER ZHU RONGI BEGINS SERIES OF MEETINGS DURING VISIT
  • Date: 12th September 2001
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 10, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. MV CHINESE PRIME MINISTER ZHU RONGJI AT FLAME TO THE UNKOWN SOLDIER; MV ZHU ATTENDING WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY (6 SHOTS) 1.05 2. MV ZHU ARRIVING TO ADDRESS A GATHERING OF RUSSIAN BUSINESSMEN; SCU SECURITY; SCU BUSINESS COMMUNITY DELEGATES LISTENING (6 SHOTS) 1.54 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE PRIME MINISTER ZHU RONGJI SAYING HIS COUNTRY WILL DO ALL IT CAN TO STAMP OUT ILLEGAL FLOW OF GOOD ACROSS ITS BORDER WITH RUSSIA 2.25 4. SLV GATHERING 2.33 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2001 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVAEIUJM3UG5W3QDMF0F25N5ZGI7
  • Story Text: Chinese Premier Zhu Rongi has begun a series of
    meetings in the Russian capital.

    Zhu who arrived in Moscow from Russia's second city
    St.Petersburg on Sunday, told a group of Russian business
    leaders that Beijing wanted to expand trade links with Russia.

    Zhu, who is due to meet Russian President Vladimir
    Putin on Tuesday (September 11), laid a wreath at the flame to
    the Unkown Soldier near the Kremlin on Monday (September 10),
    before attending a lunch meeting with Russian businessmen in
    Moscow.

    Zhu told the business gathering that China valued its
    trade links with Russia. He said Beijing would do all it could
    to stop the flow of illegal trade across China's long border
    with Russia, in order to ensure "quality trade" with it's vast
    northern neighbour.

    Russia and China, striving for deeper economic and
    political ties, put real money on the table on Saturday in
    deals to pump Siberian oil to China, and sell new Russian
    jetliners to Beijing.

    Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Russian President
    Vladimir Putin signed a cooperation treaty in July, their
    third meeting in a year, and have backed closer economic and
    political ties between the Cold War-era rivals.

    Last year China imported just 1.45 million tonnes of crude
    directly from Russia, most of which was shipped by rail. But
    imports of Russian oil have been included in China's
    development plan for 2001-2005 because of rapidly dwindling
    energy sources.


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