Russian-Chinese Group on Border Rivers to Meet in Beijing

BEIJING. Aug 16 (Interfax) – A Russian-Chinese group on cooperation in the management of the border rivers Argun and Amur will meet in Beijing on August 20-21, deputy head of the Russian Federal Agency for Water Resources Yevgeny Khilenko said during the Moscow-Beijing video conference on Thursday.

The Russian delegation led by Khilenko will comprise representatives of the Federal Agency for Water Resources, the Russian Industry and Energy ministry, GidroOGK company, and the Chita region’s administration.

A Chinese project to transfer some water from the Argun (a tributary of the Amur) to Lake Dalainor and the effect of the Bureyskaya and Zeiskaya hydropower plants on the ecological system of the Amur will be discussed, Khilenko said.

A draft agreement on cooperation in the management of trans- border water resources may be prepared in 2007.

“A coordinated text of the agreement may be submitted to the governments this year,” Khilenko said.

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