MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's defense minister will discuss bilateral military-technical cooperation with China during a visit to Beijing on December 9-11, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the ministry said Anatoly Serdyukov will attend a meeting of a joint intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation and security, and will meet with his Chinese counterpart Col. Gen. Liang Guanglie.
"The sides are planning to discuss bilateral military cooperation and a number of issues in the sphere of global and regional security," the spokesman said.
China, along with India, is a key buyer of Russian weaponry, including combat aircraft, air defense missile systems, and a variety of naval equipment.
Russia and China are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security bloc which is widely seen as a counterweight to NATO's influence in Eurasia.