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However, the nearly 12,000-strong force will not be deployed until September 2014.
The two sides are expected to ink a 30-year deal to supply pipeline gas to China during Putin's May visit.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said Beijing will settle for slower but sustainable development instead.
Beijing will work with ASEAN nations and neighbours like India to accelerate negotiations on the China-backed RCEP.
814 million voters will be eligible to cast their ballots this year.
BRICS officials will meet on the sidelines of a IMF meet this week.
Emerging-market stocks hit a four-month high on Wednesday.
China accounts for 34 per cent of the global smartphone market.
Premier Thongsing’s administration is banking on massive infrastructure projects to turn the economy around.
But some countries like the UK and Israel registered greater growth than the WEO's previous report indicated in January.
