On September 10, Visiting Premier Zhu Rongji met
Chairman Yegor Stroyev of the Russian Federation Council
(upper house of parliament) in Moscow. The two sides held a
warm and friendly talk.
Zhu conveyed cordial
greetings from Chairman Li Peng of the Standing Committee of
the National Peoples Congress to Stroyev. He said that
he was very pleased to see the fast growth of Russian's
economy and the improvement of Russian people's life in
recent years, while China has also kept a high economic
growth rate of over 7 percent, against the backdrop of
global economic slow-down. The rapid economic growth of both
countries has created favorable conditions for expanding
bilateral friendship and cooperation. The current
China-Russia Prime Ministers Meeting is more
successful than the previous five, thanks to the
Sino-Russian Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and
Cooperation signed by President Jiang Zemin and Russian
President Vladimir Putin, which has laid a solid foundation
for the development of bilateral ties. China and Russia, as
two major countries in the world and permanent members of
the Security Council of the United Nations, have significant
influence on the world through their vigorous cooperation.
China is ready to do its utmost to push forward the mutually
beneficial cooperation with Russia in all fields, as such
friendly and cooperative relations conform to the basic
interests of the two peoples and bring benefits to
mankind.
The contact between the two countries'
parliaments is an important part of the Sino-Russian
relationship. The two legislatures have done a lot to boost
their mutually beneficial and friendly cooperation and
achieved great success. We hope to further strengthen the
friendly exchanges between our two
parliaments.
Stroyev asked Zhu to convey his
greetings to Chairman Li. He said that both law-making
bodies are working to promote Russia-China friendship and
cooperation. The Russian parliament will ratify the
Sino-Russian Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and
Cooperation as soon as possible as the treaty ensures
lasting and stable development of the strategic partnership
of cooperation between the countries. The Russian people
sincerely hopes that friendly and mutually beneficial
cooperation with China will develop prosperously and are
particularly eager to develop mutually beneficial
cooperation between the two countries in economic and trade
areas. The Russian side is confident that such cooperation
will bring the two peoples more benefits and will accelerate
the development and prosperity of the world.