Chinese President Jiang Zemin said June 6 that a better
relationship between Russia, the United States and Europe will be
good to world peace, security and stability.
Jiang made the remarks during a meeting with Russian President
Vladimir Putin on the eve of the second summit meeting of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
He
said Russia is an important force in the world affairs. A better
relationship between Russia and the United States, and that between
Russia and Europe, characterized with more dialogue and cooperation
between them, will be more conducive to regional and world peace,
security and stability.
Jiang also said the strategic partnership between China and Russia
had withstood the test of time. The close contacts between top
leaders of the two countries had always been a driving force behind
the development of the bilateral relations, he noted.
The top priority facing the two countries now is to implement the
Sino-Russian
Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, Jiang
said. The two countries should strengthen mutual trust politically
and conduct cooperation in the economic and trade areas.
Putin said his meeting with Jiang would help strengthen the
strategic partnership between the two countries, which was also
helpful to maintaining world peace.
He
said Russia and China know each other's history and culture very
well and are the biggest neighbor to each other. Therefore, the two
countries have every reason and condition to keep good-neighborly
relations and have mutually beneficial cooperation.
The Russian president said the good-neighborly treaty signed a year
ago between Russia and China was a timely and correct choice of the
two countries. He said the two sides should strengthen cooperation
in various areas in accordance with the principles and spirit of
the treaty.
On
the prospects of the SCO, Jiang said the establishment of the SCO
was a correct and far-sighted choice of its six member countries,
as has been proven by the development of international situation
over the past year. He said he is fully confident of the future of
the organization.
Putin agreed with Jiang's remarks on the SCO, and said he hopes to
work with Jiang and other leaders of the SCO to make the upcoming
summit meeting a success on Friday.
(Xinhua News
Agency June 7, 2002)