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CHINA-RUSSIA JOINT STATEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND RELATIONS++
On the basis of the development of a strategic partnership of equality and mutual trust that is oriented towards the 21st century, the responsibility towards the international community and the common attitude towards the major international issues as permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the two "sides") hereby state as follows:
1. The two sides shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order.
The two sides hold the view that international relations at the close of the 20th century have undergone profound changes characterized by the end of the Cold War and the disappearance of the bipolarity.
The positive trend towards a multipolar world is accelerating; relations between major powers, including those between adversaries in the Cold War era, have undergone changes; organizations of regional economic cooperation have exhibited great vitality; the political, economic and cultural evolution in various countries has presented a scene of diversity, and the forces making for peace and broad-based international cooperation have grown in strength.
It has become the common understanding of a growing number of countries to embrace mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit and reject hegemonism and power politics, to pursue dialogue and cooperation and avoid confrontation and conflict.
The establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order based on peace and stability has become the pressing need of the times and the inevitable necessity of history.
2. Both sides maintain that mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, peaceful coexistence and other universally recognized principles of international law should serve as the basic norms governing state-to-state relations and the basis for the establishment of a new international order.
Each country has the right to independently choose its road of development in light of its own national conditions and no other countries should interfere. Differences in social system, ideology and values must not become...