China, Kyrgyzstan sign program of cooperation till 2025
BEIJING. Sept 2 (Interfax) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has had bilateral negotiations with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev in Beijing and a program of cooperation till 2025 has been signed.
The program covers every area of bilateral cooperation, a source in the presidential press service has told Interfax.
Atambayev and Xi Jinping conferred on essential bilateral affairs and declared the dynamic development of the strategic partnership between Kyrgyzstan and China.
Xi Jinping said at the meeting that he met with the Kyrgyz president twice in 2014 and in the past two years the countries "reached important agreements, which are being actively implemented and are demonstrating the strategic vector of bilateral relations."
The sides also signed a border cooperation program to bolster contacts between border regions of Kyrgyzstan and China, and an intergovernmental agreement on technological and economic cooperation envisaging a gratis grant.
Head of the Kyrgyz presidential administration's foreign policy department Sapar Isakov said earlier that the grant would amount to 350 million yuans and be spent on the renovation of roads in the Kyrgyz capital city.
The money will be given to Kyrgyzstan at the request of President Atambayev as part of a larger grant of one billion yuans the republic is set to receive within three years, Isakov said. The entire grant will be spent on repairs and construction of roads in Bishkek.
The foreign ministries of Kyrgyzstan and China signed a cooperation program in Beijing too.
