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173 俄中会谈侧重友好与合作
Putin-Jiang Summit to Focus on Friendship, Cooperation
Larry James
Moscow
15 Jul 2001 08:02 UTC
Chinese President Jiang Zemin is 1)due in Moscow Sunday, for a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Over the next four days, Mr. Jiang will meet with President Vladimir Putin and other 2)prominent Russian leaders for meetings that are to set the basis for a new relations between the two countries.
On Monday, Russia and China are set to sign a friendship and cooperation 3)pact, the first major treaty between them since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Although the 4)treaty is considered here as relatively bland, consisting of little more than declarations of friendship and cooperation in the new century, it has raised some 5)unease in Washington. China has said the pact has no military 6)implications, and the United States should not view it as a 7)strategic threat.
Just last week, President Jiang told Russian 8)news agencies that China's ties with the United States are improving, after a difficult period marked by a recent 9)collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet. Despite the fallout from the crash, Mr. Jiang said recent contacts with the United States, including a telephone call from President Bush, show what he called positive changes.
Chinese-Russian opposition to U.S. deployment of a missile defense system is also on the 10)agenda. Both countries claim such a system would 11)violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
President Jiang's visit to Moscow comes two days after the International Olympic Committee met here and selected Beijing as host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics. President Jiang is no newcomer to Russia. He was sent here in 1955 to work for a year as an electrical engineer. He speaks some Russian.
Following President Jiang's visit to Russia, he will travel to Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Malta.
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(2) prominent[5prRmInEnt]adj.卓越的, 显著的, 突出的
(3) pact[pAkt]n.合同, 公约, 协定
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(6) implication[ImplI5keIF(E)n]n.牵连, 含意, 暗示
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(8) news agency n.通讯社
(9) collision[kE5lIV(E)n]n.碰撞, 冲突
(10) agenda[E5dVendE]n.pl.议程
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