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Huang Ju, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met in Beijing Thursday with a delegation from the Russian political party, the United Russia Party (URP).
Huang praised the smooth development of Sino-Russian relations in recent years, especially since the two countries signed a Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in 2001.
A strategic cooperative partnership between China and Russia, he noted, had been reinforced since Russian President Vladimir Putin made a successful visit to China last December and reached consensus with Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders on a range of key international issues.
The CPC would maintain friendly ties with Russia's major political parties, including the URP, to prompt the relations between the two countries, Huang told the delegation.
China would also maintain its continuous and steady policies on internal and foreign affairs, keep up its reform and opening-up strategies, and continue to implement a long-term good-neighborly policy towards Russia, he said.
Alexander Bespalov, chairman of the URP's general committee and the delegation's head, said that the delegation members were very interested in China's tremendous achievements in its modernization drive, and wanted to find out the latest progress in its reform and opening-up efforts.
(Xinhua News Agency January 17, 2003)
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