Meetings Between Russian And Chinese Premiers To Be Regular

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov signed the Resolution on Signing the Protocol to the Agreement between the Russian and Chinese Governments on the Creation and the Organisational Principles of the Mechanism of Regular Meetings between the Russian and Chinese Governments of June 27, 1997. The Russian government information department reported about it on Tuesday. For further strengthening cooperation in the sphere of communications and information technology the sides, within the framework of the Russian-Chinese commission for preparing regular meetings of the heads of the governments, institute a sub-commission for communications and information technology. Each of the sides appoints the chairman and forms the composition of the national part of the sub-commission. This sub-commission holds regular sessions by turns in Russia and China at least once a year. -O- (kos/ant) 25/04/01 11:08 

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