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The United Nations need reform, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday, speaking at the University of Beijing. According to him, Russia and China are of this opinion.

“We believe that the place and role of the UN in the modern world are indispensable,” he said, “[but] agree that this organization needs modernization in accordance with the order of time.”

“But the goal should be to increase the effectiveness of the UN, strengthen the possibilities of its response to modern challenges and threats, and not its weakening, not replacing the UN with its surrogate,” Medvedev noted.

According to the President of Russia, Russian -Chinese relations are a key factor in international security, "the factor without which the main decisions are impossible in the framework of international cooperation." I can tell you frankly that maybe not everyone likes the strategic interaction that exists between our countries, ”Medvedev said.

In his opinion, such cooperation in the interests of the peoples of Russia and China, therefore, strategic interaction will develop, Medvedev assured.

He called the historical event of the settlement of the problem of the border with China. “It is known that the negotiation process on the Russian -Chinese border took more than forty years,” Medvedev continued. “And the achieved decision would simply be impossible without a new quality of bilateral relations, without a high level of trust and friendship that has developed between our peoples and political leaders.”

According to Medvedev, the agreement on good neighborliness, friendship and cooperation concluded in July 2001 is a "strong legal foundation of bilateral relations." "Now the implementation of the action plan for the implementation of this contract for 2005-2008 is being successfully completed, he recalled.-and by the end of the year a similar document calculated before 2012 will be adopted."

Medvedev arrived in Beijing the day before at the invitation of the chairman of the PRC Hu Jintao. On Friday, they held negotiations in an expanded composition and signed a joint Sino-Russian declaration on basic international issues.