MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will discuss the cooperation within the United Nations as well as in the framework of other international organizations during the bilateral meeting in Beijing, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Monday.
"Exchange of views [between Putin and Xi] on the current international and regional issues, on the prospects of strengthening of cooperation within the United Nations, the G20, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] and other international organizations is planned," Ushakov told reporters.
He added that Putin would also meet Premier of China's State Council Li Keqiang to discuss trade and economic cooperation.
"I do not exclude that this issue [of Internet trade between Russia and China] will be discussed in one or another way," Ushakov said.
Last week, Yu Han, the head of Ruston logistics company which delivers almost one third of online orders from China to Russia, predicted that the Internet trade volume between the two countries would increase by 30 percent per year, reaching some $36 billion in 2015.
In July, Putin signed a law on establishing a free port in Russia's city of Vladivostok to ensure simplified border control of cargo. The decree is scheduled to come into force on September 12.
Earlier in August, the authorities of the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang proposed to establish a logistics hub at the free port of Vladivostok to process orders made by Russian customers at Chinese e-shops.
