RF, China to sign accord on notifying launches of ballistic missiles.

MOSCOW, October 11 (Itar-Tass) - Vladimir Putin will make an official
visit to China on October 12-14 at the invitation of his Chinese
counterpart Wen Jiabao. During the visit, the sides will sign a package of
joint documents, both at the level of the two governments as well as at
the level of interbank cooperation.

The Russian government press service told Itar-Tass that in the
framework of the coming 14th regular meeting between the Russian and
Chinese premiers, the sides are drafting for singing "an intergovernmental
agreement on notification of launches of ballistic missiles and launch
vehicles".
The sides will also sign an agreement on mutual establishment of
cultural centres and several interdepartmental memorandums, including on
cooperation in the sphere of improving procedures of customs control,
mutual understanding in organising and developing express and high-speed
railway traffic in Russia. The sides will also agree on cooperation
between special economic zones in the two countries.
The Russian government claims that bilateral trade and economic
partnership "was confidently rising over all the past years, hitting last
year the record indicator of 56.83 billion US dollars".
"Despite the inevitable decline in quantitative indicators of
bilateral trade under the conditions of the global financial and economic
crisis, our countries managed, apart from preserving the earlier
qualitative level of cooperation, to make substantial headway in some
important areas of cooperation," Moscow emphasised.
"For instance, the current year witnessed signing a strategic
understanding on cooperation in the oil sphere to a total sum of 100
billion dollars in line with the Russian-Chinese energy dialogue. The
parrties signed commercial agreements between appropriate economic
entities of the two countries; cooperation in the gas, coal and power
industries is pushing ahead," the press service reported.
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