Putin to sign more than 20 ‘large-scale’ documents during China visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to sign more than 20 bilateral documents during his upcoming visit to China. The declaration comes from Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to China Andrey Denisov on Thursday.
Denisov said at a press conference that Putin would sign a “package of documents” after his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He said Putin would hold separate talks with Jinping and in the format of delegations of the two countries.
"These documents include all aspects of bilateral cooperation, including in finance and investment, transport and logistics," TASS quoted Denisov. "In general, it is obvious that the visit of our leader will give an additional impetus to our strategic cooperation in all spheres."
According to the diplomat, the first and the second group of documents consist of agreements on different aspects of energy. He said negotiations would continue until the final hour on some issues such as the ones related cooperation in natural gas.
Denisov added the issues were quite “large-scale” and “serious.” The issues are highly important for China and Russia as well as companies from the countries, he added. The envoy said a more transparent view about the documents would be disclosed on Sept. 3 but those documents would definitely be signed.
Gazprom, a major gas producer in Russia, said on Wednesday it would start gas supplies to China from 2021. It was previously announced that the gas supply would start in 2019, Reuters reported.
Gazprom signed a deal in 2014 to supply pipeline gas to China. It has supplied pipeline gas only to Europe so far. China is world’s leading energy consumer, and Russia has been working on building stronger ties with the Asian giant.
The Chinese president earlier invited his Russian counterpart to China. Putin will attend celebrations on the end of the Second World War and the 70th anniversary of Victory in the War against Japan.
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