Beijing: In a historic decision, China and Russia today (Oct 14, 2004) resolved the last of their decades-old boundary disputes with Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin finalising the delimitation of their 4,370 km-long Eastern border and inking a series of key agreements to boost trade.

According to diplomatic sources, the Chinese and Russian sides inked a series of accords including an additional agreement on the Eastern stretch of Russia-Chinese border, which was not resolved previously.

The disputed area was in the region of Heixiazi Island and Abagaitu Islet in the Eastern section of the Sino-Russian boundary line. The two countries have been negotiating to reach a settlement for a long time.

The length of the Sino-Russian border is about 4,370 km. Of that, the Eastern section accounts for about 4,320 km and the Western section accounts for 54 km.

Other accords are an intergovernmental protocol on navigation of Russian and Chinese ships in a basin adjacent to Tarabarov and Bolshoi Ussuriisky islands, a protocol to an intergovernmental agreement on the joint use of the island in a border area and a memorandum of Russian and Chinese Governments on applying the current agreement to new delimitated segments of the State border.

Russia and China also have signed a package of documents on the completion of talks on Russia's admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO).