14 November 2014

Russia and China will create a joint venture to promote services based on Russia’s GLONASS and China’s Beidou satellite navigation systems worldwide, a spokesman for non-commercial partnership GLONASS Union, the Russian system's only operator, said on Friday. “A Russian-Chinese center for implementation of satellite navigation technologies for civilian use will be set up to perform administrative work to establish a joint venture by the end of the year,” the spokesman said. “The center will become a supervisory body, identifying key areas of the future joint venture, and will address all issues connected with its establishment.”

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