MOSCOW EXPECTS NO GROWTH IN TRADE WITH CHINA.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 33

Moscow’s trade turnover will stay at $5 billion next year, Russian foreign trade minister Oleg Davydov told Itar-Tass June 13. Russian officials had hoped that it would rise some to help set the stage for the upcoming visit to Moscow by Chinese premier Li Peng, but differences over barter arrangements will keep trade between the two countries from rising to the $7.7 billion exchanged in 1993.

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