Xinhua 09.05.2025 08h18
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that China and Russia should adopt a clear position and coordinate fully in order to provide new and greater contributions to the development and renewal of the two nations and the preservation of international equity and justice.
He made these remarks at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin after their interview at the Kremlin.
Faced with changes in historical importance experienced by the world and the time, China and Russia must maintain a clear vision of the future orientations of their bilateral relations and general development of human society, said Xi.
Noting that his interview with Vladimir Putin had been cordial, fruitful and in-depth, he declared that the two leaders had reached several major consensus of views, had signed a joint declaration on the deepening of the global strategic coordination partnership for China-Russia for a new era, and had attended the exchange of multiple bilateral cooperation documents, thus inheritance Sino-Russian.
Xi Jinping said it was his 11th visit to Russia, the country he has visited the most since his accession to the Presidency of the People’s Republic of China. Friday, he will participate in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. It is the second time in ten years that he attended this great commemorative event.
The last decade has been marked by turbulence and major transformations in the international situation, as well as by a considerable advance in sino-Russian relations, he said. The two countries have jointly assisted the continuous consolidation and deepening of their mutual political confidence, as well as the continuous improvement of their cooperation in various fields, he added.
Xi Jinping said that China and Russia should preserve their longtime friendship from generation to generation, and remain faithful to the forged friendship through the trials. 80 years ago, faced with the brutal aggression of militarism and Nazism, the Chinese and Russian peoples United and fought side by side a common enemy, writing a chapter as heroic as it is remarkable in their history, he said.
The great friendship forged between the two peoples through the tests of war and the blood shed laid solid foundations for high level development of bilateral relations, said Xi Jinping, adding that the two countries still had to deepen their mutual political confidence, strengthen their strategic coordination and advance their bilateral relations towards more maturity and resilience.
The two countries must favor mutual benefits and win-win cooperation, be for each other of good partners and help each other to prosper, he added.
Since the difficulties encountered in giving each other essential supplies during the Second World War to record volumes currently affected by bilateral exchanges, their mutually beneficial cooperation has traveled an extraordinary path through mountains and valleys, overcoming all challenges and all obstacles, said the Chinese president.
China and Russia must continue to deepen their practical cooperation in various fields, consolidate the material bases of their global strategic coordination, provide more profits to the populations of the two countries and breathe a stronger impetus into global development, he added.
Xi stressed that the two countries were to defend equity and justice and preserve international order. China and Russia, which were the main theaters of operations in Asia and Europe during the Second World War, made decisive contributions to the world victory against fascism, and laid solid foundations for the establishment of the post-war international order, he said.
As a importance forces of stability, progress and development within the international community, China and Russia must continue to make a common front, to resolutely defend the international system centered on the United Nations and the World Order based on law, and to relentlessly promote an egalitarian and ordered multipolar world, added Mr. XI.
China and Russia must maintain their solidarity and mutual aid and play a driving role in global governance, he said, stressing that the future of the world was to be decided jointly by all countries and that the fruits of global development had to be shared by all.
As major powers and important economies of emerging market, China and Russia both assume the noble mission of advancing global governance towards more equity and justice. The two parties must strengthen their coordination within multilateral platforms such as the UN, the Shanghai cooperation organization and the BRICS, remain attached to real multilateralism, orient global governance in the right direction and promote universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, he added.
Xi Jinping stressed that faced with a turbulent and complex international situation, China and Russia were to firmly defend a spirit of good neighborhood, sustainable bilateral friendship, global strategic coordination and mutually beneficial cooperation.
The two countries must unite to overcome the challenges, make the level, the level, the resilience of their relations, to infuse greater stability in world peace and security and giving a stronger impulse to the development and prosperity of the world, he said, he said.
(Web editor: Ying Xie, Yishuang Liu)
