The friendship between Moscow and Beijing has no boundaries, and there aren’t any "forbidden areas" in their collaboration. Furthermore, the strengthening of bilateral strategic cooperation is not aimed at any third countries, the joint statement by the two countries on International Relations Entering a New Era and Sustainable Development says, TASS reports.
"Friendship between the two states has no limits, there are no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation, strengthening of bilateral strategic cooperation is neither aimed against third countries nor affected by the changing international environment and circumstantial changes in third countries," the document reads.
A package of 16 intergovernmental, interdepartmental and commercial documents was approved as part of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China.
Moscow and Beijing stressed that they "call for the establishment of a new kind of relationships between world powers on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation." "They reaffirm that the new inter-State relations between Russia and China are superior to political and military alliances of the Cold War era," the joint statement says.
In particular, the Russian state corporation Roscosmos and the Chinese Satellite Navigation System Commission signed a cooperation deal in the sphere of mutual complementarity of the GLONASS and Beidou global satellite navigation systems.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development and China's Ministry of Commerce made a joint statement on the completion of developing a roadmap for mutual trade in goods and services and signed a memorandum of understanding for deepening investment cooperation in sustainable (green) development areas.
The customs authorities of Russia and China signed a protocol on mutual recognition of the status of an authorized economic operator. The parties approved 11 intergovernmental and interdepartmental documents in total.
Four commercial contracts were signed during the visit. Gazprom and CNPC inked a long-term contract for the delivery of 10 bln cubic meters of natural gas over the Far Eastern route. Rosneft and Huawei sealed a deal on cooperation. Rosneft and CNPC signed an agreement on the deliveries of 100 mln tonnes of oil via Kazakhstan over a decade and approved a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the low-carbon development sphere.
Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were held in Beijing, where the Russian leader arrived earlier on Friday. This is the first visit of the Russian President to China since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
