Russia, China Strengthen Coordination on Missile Defense Issues

Russian and Chinese diplomats have held interagency consultations in Moscow to discuss missile defense and missile-related aspects of strategic stability, the Russian Foreign Ministry informed, The Caspian Post reports, citing TASS.

"On November 19, Russian-Chinese consultations were held in Moscow in an interagency format on missile defense and missile aspects of strategic stability. The Russian delegation was headed by Andrey Malyugin, special representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Strategic Stability, and the Chinese delegation, by Li Chijiang, Deputy Director of the Arms Control Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China," the ministry noted.

"The parties expressed mutual satisfaction with the level and quality of bilateral dialogue and interaction in these areas and confirmed their commitment to further strengthening them," it added.

The parties analyzed relevant destabilizing factors that "create strategic risks for global and regional security" and exchanged views on ways to minimize them.