CHINA AND RUSSIA --EFFORTS FOR GLOBAL ENERGY SECURITIES

China and Russia on Friday vowed joint efforts to maintain global energy security.

International security is comprehensive and inalienable, and some countries’ security cannot be guaranteed at the cost of some others, said the two nations in a joint statement.

The statement on major international issues, signed here on Friday after talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and his visiting Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, stressed the necessity to respect and consider the interests and concerns of countries concerned.

Mr. Medvedev arrived here on Friday for a two-day state visit as a guest of Mr. Hu.

Both sides called on countries around the world to enhance energy dialogue and coordination, based on equality and mutual benefits, to stabilise international energy markets.

The two countries support building a mutually beneficial and cooperative energy security concept featuring diversified development and coordinated guarantees, said the statement. They also called for speeding up research and popularisation of new technologies for environmental protection.

The statement said all countries across the world should take the U.N. Charter and the principles of mutual trust, consideration of each other’s interests, equality, cooperation and openness as a basis, and promote the international security system to develop in accordance with the demands of the times and the common interest of all countries.

Arms control


The two countries will continue to actively press for international arms control. They said the establishment of a global missile defence system including the deployment of the system in some regions is not conducive to strategic balance and stability, efforts on arms control and non-proliferation, and mutual trust between nations and regional stability.

The two nations will also devote themselves to jointly strengthening the dialogue between the Group of Eight.

The statement said both sides were ready to strengthen such international cooperation mechanism as the Golden BRIC (a term created by the economists of Goldman Sachs for the world’s four most prosperous emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China), and the Foreign Ministers’ meeting between China, Russian and India. They called on all parties to refrain from military and extreme actions against Iran. “China and Russia propose the Iranian nuclear issue be resolved through dialogue and equal consultation,” said the statement. —