����BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A Sino-Russian joint military
exercise scheduled for August aims to test the reliability of bilateral
military communications and will not target any third country, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Thursday.
����The exercise will be held according to a Sino-Russian treaty signed
in July 1994 on preventing possible dangerous military actions. Such
exercises on the squad scale were staged in the past.
����Currently, Liu said, China and Russia are consulting on the August
joint military exercise, which will be held in the same wayand on the same
scale as the previous events.
����Liu said the reports of some foreign media claiming China and
Russia will stage a large-scale army-navy-air force joint military
exercise aimed at a third country are inconsistent with the facts.
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