Medvedev expects Russia-China trade to reach pre-crisis level.

27/9 Tass 107

BEIJING, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
expects that this year Russia and China will manage to get back to the
pre-crisis level of trade.
"Trade and economic cooperation develops very well, the negative
tendencies of the previous year have been surmounted," the Russian
president said after talks with Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.
He said there had been a collapse in trade turnover because of the
global economic crisis. "But this year we have made up leeway, and we will
get to the pre-crisis level," Medvedev noted. According to the Russian
leader, it is important to fix the positive trend of the start of this
year.
He noted that "Russia and China steadily follow their course aimed at
strategic partnership on all issues, which makes it easier to get adapted
to geopolitical changes". He also gave high marks to cooperation of the
two countries within the framework of G-20, the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) and the BRIC group of states (Brazil, Russia, India and
China).
"The Russian delegation is very big, unprecedentedly big, at these
talks," he stressed. "This demonstrates the level of cooperation, we have
issues to discuss, we have vast prospects and good relations," Medvedev
said.
He said the Monday talks had been held in a maximally trust-based
atmosphere. The president thanked the Chinese leadership for traditional
hospitality as well as for inviting over 1,000 Russian school students to
China for holidays this year.
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