20 February 2003 00:00 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SPEAKS TO PRC PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN BY TELEPHONE
2003-02-19-02
A telephone conversation took place today between Russian President Vladimir Putin and PRC President Jiang Zemin.
The Presidents of Russia and the PRC exchanged views on the developments in the situation around Iraq, noting with satisfaction that the position in favor of continuing the inspections in Iraq for the purpose of implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1441 and ensuring a politico-diplomatic solution of the Iraq problem was finding support both at the official and at the public levels in many countries of the world.
Putin and Jiang underscored the importance of coordinating the actions of Russia and China in the Iraqi, as well as in other major sectors of international politics.
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