Russian President Vladimir Putin Meets With Chinese President Xi Jinping In Beijing

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China.

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00:00President Xi, President Rusu, first of all, I would like to thank Mr. President

00:29and our Chinese friends for their hospitality, for organizing our trilateral summit. We have

00:38not met in a forum like this for a long time, and this summit is carried out at the initiative

00:44of the Chinese side, and I would like to emphasize that Russia is eager to develop trilateral,

00:51mutually beneficial, multidimensional relations with the People's Republic of China and with

00:57Mongolia. And we deem it important to mark that successful bilateral cooperation was complemented

01:07and received new dimensions by this trilateral forum, which is only natural because our three

01:16countries share a lot of common things. We share the interest in developing political, economic,

01:24and humanitarian ties between our countries, and most importantly, Russia, China, and Mongolia

01:31are good neighbors, and our peoples are united by longstanding traditions of friendship and

01:38mutual support. I'm certain that our today's conversation is going to be open and substantive

01:49as usual, and we are going to discuss the main areas of our trilateral cooperation, and we will

01:56discuss plans for the short term and midterm. Thank you. Your Excellency, President Xi, my dear friend,

02:05both myself and the entire Russian delegation, we are glad to have this chance to meet again our Chinese

02:13friends, our Chinese counterparts. We are grateful for the warm welcome extended to our delegation. Our

02:22close communication reflects the strategic nature of the Russian-Chinese cooperation that is at the

02:31unprecedentedly high level, which was demonstrated during your official visit to Russia in May, and our

02:40joint participation in the festive events to commemorate the victory in Great Patriotic War. And tomorrow in

02:49Beijing there are going to be festive events to celebrate the victory over Japan in the end of World War II, and we are going to attend

02:59these events together.