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Russia-China partnership 'yielding results':Putin

Published : Friday, 23 August, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 275
MOSCOW, Aug 22: President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia's economic and trade links with China are "yielding results" as he welcomed Chinese Premier Li Qiang to the Kremlin.

Moscow has looked to Beijing as an economic lifeline since the Ukraine conflict began, with the two boosting trade to record highs as Russia faces heavy economic sanctions from the West.

"Our trade relations are developing successfully... The attention that the two governments on both sides are paying to trade and economic ties is yielding results," Putin said in a meeting with Li.

"Our states have worked out large-scale joint plans, projects in economic and humanitarian spheres, we expect for many years ahead," he added.

Li told Putin that "Chinese-Russian relations are at an unprecedentedly high level," according to the Kremlin's translation of his remarks, saying Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had created a "strong impulse for further deepening of bilateral relations".

In a separate meeting with Li, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin hailed the countries' links as a stabilising element.

"Our partnership and strategic cooperation is especially important in a situation where new contours of the global order are being formed," Mishustin said.

"And in these conditions, the Russia-China link is a powerful stabilising factor, promoting economic growth in both countries and increasing quality of life for our citizens," the Russian premier said.

Citing a joint communique, Chinese state media Xinhua said the two sides agreed to optimize trade structure, grow bilateral trade volume and promote development of e-commerce.

It also said they would make efforts "to expand mutually beneficial cooperation in the Arctic" as well as bilateral agricultural trade.

- Trade ties -
Moscow and Beijing both rail against "western hegemony", particularly what they see as US domination of global affairs, and Mishustin on Wednesday said the two countries must "focus efforts on protecting our shared interests".

Xinhua said the two denounced countries that "use the so-called 'rules-based order' to maintain their own privileges" and decried their obstruction of "the collective rise of emerging markets and developing countries".

Facing Western sanctions, Russia has pushed to use non-Western currencies as the basis for its trade.
"Today the share of the ruble and the yuan in mutual settlements is already over 95 percent," Mishustin said.    —AFP



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