🇷🇺🇨🇳 July 16 marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation between Russia and China. This landmark document laid the foundation for a comprehensive partnership between our countries, which continues to bear fruit in many areas of practical cooperation. 📰 To mark the anniversary, the Pakistani media (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) published a joint article by the Russian and Chinese Ambassadors to Pakistan, Albert P. Khorev and Jiang Zaidong "Russia-China Cooperation as a Vital Constant amid Century-Defining Changes Sweeping across the World". Key ideas: 🔸️Political mutual trust remains the hallmark of Russia-China relations. Our strategic partnership plays an important stabilising role on the global stage; 🔸️Russia and China consistently advocate for an equal and orderly multipolar world and international relations of a new type, including a more just and rational system of global governance; 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇵🇰 At the #UN, #Russia, #China and #Pakistan can often be seen jointly upholding the principles of international law, fairness and sovereign equality of states. As members of the United Nations Security Council, our three countries share principled approaches to the most pressing issues on its agenda; 🔸️Head-of-state guidance is the greatest advantage of and fundamental guarantee for the high-level development of Russia-China relations; 🔸️Russia and China consistently work together within the SCO to bolster regional security, combat terrorism, separatism and extremism, deepen economic and humanitarian cooperation, and promote dialogue among diverse civilisations and political systems; 🔸️Russia and China are actively advancing the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with the development of the Eurasian Economic Union, while promoting its parallel and coordinated development with the Greater Eurasian Partnership; 🔸️Mutual trade has exceeded $200 billion for three consecutive years and continues to grow steadily; 🔸️Strong humanitarian bonds between our peoples have recently been exemplified by successful Russia-China Years of Culture (2024–2025) and Years of Education (2026–2027); 🔸️We stand ready to deepen political trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen coordination on international affairs, and promote common development for the benefit of our peoples and the wider international community. Read in full