China, Russia sign boundary agreement
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China and Russia have signed an agreement that ended a decades-long territorial dispute, in the latest sign of warming ties.
The protocol, signed by the two countries' foreign ministers in Beijing, adds to an existing agreement on their boundary.
There were no specific details given to the media, but the state-run China Daily newspaper says the agreement involves Russia handing back 174 square kilometres of island territory to China.
The paper says all of Yinglong island, known as Tarabarov in Russian, and half of Heixazi island, Bolshoi Ussuriysky in Russian, on the rivers that border the countries in China's far northeast were returned.
