双语新闻：中俄达成边界协议
China, Russia Sign Accord To End Border FeudChina, Russia Sign Accord
To End Border Feud
Associated Press
July 21, 2008 4:44 p.m.
BEIJING -- China and Russia signed an agreement Monday to end a long-running dispute over the demarcation of their eastern border, the scene of military clashes between the once-bitter Communist rivals.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signed the agreement with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, but no details were immediately released on how the border issues were resolved.
'From a legal point of view we have created the preconditions for the border to become a link of stability, openness, mutual benefit, friendship and cooperation,' Mr. Lavrov said.
The tug-of-war over the eastern part of their 2,700-mile border reaches back centuries to their competition for territory as imperial China and Czarist Russia expanded toward each other. The struggle resulted in violent clashes in the 1960s and '70s when strained relations were at their most acrimonious, feeding fears abroad that the conflict could erupt into nuclear war.
The China Daily newspaper reported that Russia will return Yinlong Island (known as Tarabarov Island in Russian) and half of Heixiazi Island (Bolshoi Ussuriysky) to China. The 67 square miles of territory are on the northeast border with China.
Former Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a border agreement with China in 2004. But it is not clear how far that accord went to resolve the dispute over the stretch of river and islands along China's northeastern border with Russia's Far East.
China and Russia were bitter rivals during the Cold War, but their ties have warmed considerably in recent years, partly from a mutual desire to counter U.S. influence in world affairs. Beijing is also eager to secure access to Russia's oil and gas deposits, and has been a major buyer of Russian military hardware.
中俄达成边界协议
北京（美联社）--中国与俄罗斯周一就东部边界划分问题签署了协议，标志著两国长期以来的边界纷争彻底结束。曾为敌对共产主义国家的中俄两国曾在东部边境地区发生军事冲突。
俄罗斯外交部长谢尔盖?拉夫罗夫(Sergey Lavrov)与中国外长杨洁篪共同签署了这份协议；但双方并未立即公布边界问题的解决细节。
拉夫罗夫表示，从法律角度来说，双方为使两国边境线成为稳定、开放、睦邻、友好与合作的纽带创造了条件。
中俄两国之间的边境线长达2,700英里。双方在东部边境的领土纷争可以追溯到数百年之前，当时中国清朝政府与沙皇俄国均在寻求东扩。两国曾于上个世纪六、七十年代因东部边界问题爆发暴力冲突，当时双方关系处在最恶劣的时期，外界一度担心冲突可能会升级为核战争。
据《中国日报》报导，中国东北边境的银龙岛（俄称塔拉巴罗夫岛）和半个黑瞎子岛（俄称大乌苏里岛）的勘界工作已经完成，中国将收回上述67平方英里领土的主权。
俄罗斯前总统弗拉基米尔?普京(Vladimir Putin)2004年与中国就边界问题签署了双边协议。但不清楚该协议在解决东部边境线河流与岛屿的争端方面取得了哪些进展。
中国与俄罗斯在冷战时期曾处于敌对状态，但双方关系近年来显著回暖，部分原因是双方都希望在国际事务上共同对抗美国。北京还急欲确保获得俄罗斯的石油与天然气资源，而且一直都是俄罗斯军事装备的主要买家。
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