Chinese President Xi Jinping said, after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that China and Russia should uphold fairness and justice and be defenders of the international order.
According to the People's Daily client report, Xi Jinping, on the morning of the eighth local time, met with the press together with Putin after talks at the Moscow Kremlin.
Xi Jinping stated that he just had an in-depth, friendly, and fruitful conversation with Putin, reaching many new important consensuses. Both of them signed the "Joint Statement on Further Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Coordination for a New Era between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on the occasion of commemorating the victories of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War, and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations," and witnessed relevant departments from both countries exchanging several cooperation documents, injecting new momentum into the development of China-Russia relations.
He emphasized that the past ten years have been a decade of great turbulence and transformation in the international landscape and also a decade of great development and leap in China-Russia relations. The two have jointly witnessed the continuous consolidation and deepening of political mutual trust between China and Russia. In the face of changes in the world, the times, and history, China and Russia must firmly grasp the direction of bilateral relations and the trend of human society development, take on the responsibility, fully collaborate, make new and greater contributions to promoting the development and rejuvenation of the two countries, and uphold international fairness and justice.