Chinese defense minister will visit Russia

BOCHAROV RUCHEI, Sochi. Aug 31 (Interfax-AVN) - Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan will visit Russia from September 6 to September 8.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told journalists that sessions of the two countries' commission on military-technical cooperation will be held in Moscow and the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Cao, who graduated from the Soviet Higher Artillery Academy in the late-1950s, has visited Sochi on several occasions, Ivanov said.