OREANDA-NEWS. November 29, 2011. Consultations took place in Moscow on November 28 between Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexei Borodavkin and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Cheng Guoping.

In the course of the talks the progress made in Russian-Chinese relations in 2011 was summed up, along with reviewing preparations for upcoming political contacts at Summit and Ministerial level over the year ahead, and discussing themes related to further development of bilateral partnership and strategic interaction.

The discussion also touched on topical security issues in the AP region and on the collaboration between the two countries in regional multilateral structures – the SCO, EAS, ARF and others.