Putin going to Beijing to discuss trade, international situation.

BEIJING, October 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin begins a two-day official visit to China Tuesday.
Yuri Ushakov, a deputy chief of the government staff in charge of
foreign policy issues told reporters Monday the Russian government
attaches significance to the visit and the agenda of Putin's talks with
Chinese Prime Minister Weng Jiabao "is very tightly packed."
According to Ushakov, the agenda "embraces all the aspects of trade
and economic cooperation between the two nations."
He indicated that Russian-Chinese trade may exceed $ 70 billion at the
yearend.
"China has overtaken Germany /as regards the volume of trade with
Russia - Itar-Tass/ and has become our foreign trade partner number one,"
Ushakov said.
He admitted along with it that energy resources still account for 71%
of Russia's exports to China, saying: "We aren't very much content with
the situation."
Moscow hopes to diversify economic cooperation and heighten the
attention to cooperative efforts in the field of top-notch technologies,
like the ones used in space exploration, as well as information
technologies and innovative industries.
"The Russian side will raise all the issues it is concerned by,"
Ushakov said. He added that the case in hand is agriculture, metallurgy,
and protection of intellectual property rights in the field of
defense-related technologies.
Nor will the two sides bypass the energy sector problems.
On the international plane, the Russian and Chinese delegations will
consider collaboration in the format of the UN and the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.
Although Ushakov ruled out the possibility of a discussion of the UN
resolution on Syria, he said that the Syrian problem as such might be
brought up at the negotiations.
"Most surely, the text of the resolution will not be discussed but the
/Syrian/ problem as such may be raised," he said.