RUSSIA: Chinese President Hu Jintao meets President Vladimir Putin during his official Moscow visit

Record ID: 856709

  • Title: RUSSIA: Chinese President Hu Jintao meets President Vladimir Putin during his official Moscow visit
  • Date: 27th May 2003
  • Summary: VARIOUS , DOORS OPENING AND CHINESE AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS ENTERING ROOM AND POSING/ SHAKING HANDS BEFORE MEDIA CUTAWAY MEDIA SMV VLADIMIR PUTIN GREETING HO JINTAO WIDE OF HU JINTAO AND PUTIN SEATED SCU HU JINTAO SMV PUTIN AND RUSSIAN OFFICIALS SCU HU JINTAO SMV VLADIMIR PUTIN AND HU JINTAO ENTERING ROOM ,WALKING TO PODIUMS SMV MEDIA SMV TWO PRESIDENTS STANDING , SHAKING HANDS AND EXCHANGING AGREEMENTS SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE PRESIDENT HU JINTAO, SAYING: "We have just agreed with Vladimir Putin that we will continue to develop and strengthen the historic Sino-Russian relations in all spheres of life by adjusting ourselves to the changes and developments that are happening in the world." SMV (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING: "Last year we delivered 3 million tonnes of oil to China and we plan to increase the delivery. We are also planning to build oil and gas pipelines from Russia into China." SCU TVB NEWS WOMAN CAMERA OPERATOR VARIOUS, CHINESE AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS LEAVE NEWS CONFERENCE
  • Embargoed: 11th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: International Relations
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  • Story Text: Chinese President Hu Jintao, on his first foreign trip as head of state, has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the second day of his official visit to Moscow.
    Russia is the first stop on Hu's four-nation trip and he is seeking to use his debut on the world stage to repair China's battered image after its cover-up of the SARS outbreak.
    Hu's 11-day trip, his first since becoming president in March, will also take him to France, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
    He was accompanied by his wife, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and Commerce Minister Lu Fuyuan, the official Xinhua news agency said before he left Beijing.
    The Liberation Army Daily, the mouthpiece of the military, said Hu's summit with Putin would raise bilateral relations to "new heights".
    The trip will also test Hu's diplomatic skills.
    He is due to meet a succession of leaders on the sidelines of a G8 summit in France on June 1-3 of top economic nations.
    Those meetings include U.S. President George W. Bush, days after Washington slapped sanctions worth $200 million on a Chinese conglomerate for alleged ballistic missile cooperation with Iran.
    Analysts said North Korea's nuclear ambitions, post-war Iraqi reconstruction and bilateral ties were likely to top the agenda of Hu's third meeting with Bush since February 2002.
    Hu could build on new-found respect for Beijing after bringing Washington and Pyongyang to the negotiating table last month to try to end their nuclear stalemate.
    Hu is also to meet French President Jacques Chirac on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Evian as well as Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
    Hu's maiden meeting with G8 leaders would "give further reassurance that the other economic powers do not see China as an inherent threat," said Bruce Dickson, who teaches international relations at George Washington University.
    It would also "build China's self-confidence that it is not a victim of international influences," Dickson said.
    Before going to France, the Chinese leader attends a meeting in Moscow on Thursday of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a security forum including Russia, China and four Central Asian republics.
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