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Moscow and Beijing will draw up a roadmap to establish the
station and cooperate closely on planning, designing and
implementing the project as well as presenting it to the world
space community, it said.
"An international lunar science station is a complex of
experimental and research facilities created on the surface
and/or in orbit of the moon, designed to conduct
multidisciplinary and multipurpose research work," it said.
Russia and China will promote international cooperation on the
project and offer equal access to any nation that wants to take
part, the agency said in a statement on its website.
The memorandum was signed by Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin and
Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administration,
during a meeting by video conference, it said.
Russia and China have sought to deepen their relations in recent
years, especially since 2014 when Moscow's annexation of Crimea
from Ukraine badly strained its ties with the West.
Earlier on Tuesday China and France reaffirmed their commitment
to working together in the field of space exploration.
(Reporting by Tom Balmforth; editing by Gareth Jones)
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