Moscow, Beijing to sign declaration on world order
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MOSCOW, June 29 (RIA Novosti) - Chinese leader Hu Jintao will arrive here Thursday to sign a joint declaration on world order in the 21st Century, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote in an article published in the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta Wednesday.
"This is a crucial document that reflects the convergence of Russia and China's fundamental positions on key issues in modern world order - our common view for the outlook of the development of humankind," Alexander Yakovenko wrote.
According to Yakovenko, the declaration will affirm the parties' commitment to forming a new fair and rational world order and to increasing the role of the UN in international politics.
Russia and China will announce the unacceptability of monopolizing global affairs, dividing states into those who lead and those who are led, imposing models for social development from the outside and applying double standards, he wrote.
Yakovenko wrote the sides will urge the international community to combine efforts in order to create a new architecture of security by shaping a global strategy to counteract new threats and challenges under the UN aegis, the article reads.
Russia and China have launched work on a mid-term program for developing bilateral trade and economic relations for 2006-2010, he wrote.
According to Yakovenko, the document will provide a comprehensive analysis of the potential for bilateral cooperation and offer specific recommendations for solving the existing problems that in some cases stall the development of Russian-Chinese trade and economic cooperation. Economic cooperation remains the pivotal sphere of Russian-Chinese interaction, he wrote.
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Russia builds new nuclear reactors for Iran
6/29/2005 4:47:00 AM GMT
Despite U.S. opposition, Russia plans to build up to six new nuclear reactors for Iran, Moscow's senior nuclear chief said.
"When Iran announces new tenders to construct nuclear reactors, we'll take part in them," Alexander Rumyantsev, head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency, told Itar-Tass news agency.
"Tehran intends to build another six nuclear reactors," he added.
Rumyantsev's comments came just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country would continue its nuclear cooperation with Iran after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election as president of the Islamic Republic last week.
"We are ready to continue cooperation with Iran in the atomic energy sector, while taking into account our international obligations in the area of non-proliferation, (and) to cooperate on finding a mutually acceptable political solution to existing questions," Putin said on Saturday.
Russia has refused to bow to U.S. pressure to abandon the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant near the southern city of Bushehr.
The United States accuses Iran of secretly developing an atomic weapons program and wants to send Tehran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
Iran denies the U.S. allegations, insisting that its nuclear program is strictly aimed at the peaceful generation of electricity.
Construction work on the Bushehr reactor in Iran is almost complete. Officials there said this week that the first deliveries of Russian nuclear fuel should be made within a few months.
In an attempt to allay U.S. concerns, Russia and Iran reached a deal which obliges Tehran to send used fuel back to Moscow.
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