In an interview with the NTV television network, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said that for the first time in history his
country now has a fully delimited border with China, adding that
this achievement had become possible once their relations had
reached "a level of strategic partnership."
He and Chinese Foreign Minister Li
Zhaoxing signed the Supplementary Agreement on the Eastern
Section of the China-Russia Boundary Line in Beijing last
month.
Lavrov said the agreement "helped to remove serious irritants in
bilateral relations."
Apart from settling territorial problems,
Russia and China have also "achieved important understandings
on military, energy and migration questions," the minister
said.
(Xinhua News Agency, CRI.com November 15, 2004)