According to him, it will happen in Vladivostok, Russia's Pacific port, where the Russian and Chinese ministers will meet separately on the sidelines of the Russian, Chinese and Indian foreign ministers' meeting.
The permanent committee of the all-China assembly of people's representatives, China's supreme legislative body, ratified the additional agreement on the eastern section of the Russian-Chinese border on April 27.
The agreement was signed in Beijing on October 14, 2004 during Vladimir Putin's visit to China.
On May 20, the State Duma (Russia's lower house) ratified the additional agreement, followed by the approval of the Federation Council (upper house).
The additional agreement determines the frontier in two sections - near the Bolshoi Island, the upper part of the Argun River in the Chita region, and near the Tarabarov and Bolshoi Ussuriisky Islands where the Amur and Ussuri rivers merge near Khabarovsk. These sections make less than 2% of the total Russian-Chinese border stretching for over 4,300 km.
The border crossing at these sections remained uncoordinated after the USSR and China concluded the 1991 agreement. According to the document, the borderline run both along the middle of non-navigable rivers and along the land, crossing the Bolshoi and Bolshoi Ussuriisky Islands. The territories of both areas (about 375 sq. km) are shared proportionately.
This is a delimitating agreement. The borderline at the site will be determined during the demarcation.
