President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao gave the green light Tuesday to a $2.5 billion pipeline that will carry Yukos oil over the vast Siberian taiga and into China.
"Both sides consider cooperation in the energy sector to be extremely important. The realization of large-scale oil and gas projects, including the construction of the Russia-China oil pipeline ... should become the basis for strengthening this cooperation," the two leaders said in a joint declaration signed after talks Tuesday afternoon
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