FROM EIR DAILY ALERT
Xi and Putin Commit to ‘Uninterrupted Progress in All Spheres’ in New Year’s Greetings
Dec, 31, 2018 (EIRNS)—Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a telegram to Russian President Vladimir Putin to wish him happy holidays, Xinhua news agency and TASS reported today. Putin sent greetings to Xi, for the calendar New Year and Spring Festival, which marks the Lunar New Year, celebrated in China, which starts on Feb. 5 this year and usually runs for a week.
Xi Jinping said to Putin,
“I want to continue cooperation with you in the same spirit for the sake of uninterrupted progress in the development of bilateral relations in all spheres, for the sake of happiness of the peoples of the two countries.”
Xi said that 2018 was marked by a strengthening of mutual trust and fruitful cooperation in all spheres. “Our countries successfully implemented important programs of internal political development and entered a new epoch of developing relations,” Xi said, declaring that this cooperation in the international arena was “providing important constructive effects on ensuring justice in the whole world, facilitating global stability.”
Putin said to Xi, as reported yesterday by the Kremlin,
“The relations of comprehensive trust-based partnership and strategic interaction between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China have reached an unprecedented level.”
The Russian President stressed the ongoing substantive political dialogue, the dynamic growth of bilateral trade, the successful launch of the reciprocal years of region-to-region cooperation, and the good results of coordinating the efforts by Moscow and Beijing in addressing important regional and global issues. He also expressed confidence that effective joint work on the bilateral and international agenda will continue in the coming year, which will mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
Vladimir Putin wished Xi Jinping good health, happiness, and every success, and the friendly Chinese people happiness and prosperity.
