China announced the decision of its top legislature to ratify the supplementary agreement on the eastern border with Russia on Friday.

The top legislature, the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC), ratified the supplementary agreement on April 27. Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, ratified the agreement on May 20.

The supplementary agreement was signed during President Vladimir Putin's visit to China in October 2004.

The agreement defines the borderline on two sections, which constitute less than two percent of the Chinese-Russian border, left unsettled since 1991 when the two sides signed a border treaty on the eastern part of the common border. Russia and China share a 4,300 kilometer-long border.

(Xinhua News Agency May 28, 2005)