1 The Taipei-Moscow Economic and Cultural Coordination Commission and the Moscow-Taipei Economic and Cultural Coordination Commis-sion hereinafter referred to as the parties; Referring to the discussion on 19th September 1992 in Taipei be-tween H. E. Oleg Lobov, Chairman of the Moscow-Taipei Economic and Cultural Coordination Commission and Mr. Yuan Hsingyuan, Di-rector General of the Civil Aeronautics Administration of the M-inistry of Transportation and Communications in Taipei; Reaffirming the strong intents to establish direct airlink betw-een Moscow and Taipei and other several relevant relations; Recognizing the benefits to be gained by the parties from closereconomic co-operation for the establishment of airlinks between Moscow and Taipei on the basis of joint exploitation of the air routes by Russian and Taiwanese nonstate owned airlines; Have reached understanding as follows: 1. The Moscow-Taipei Economic and Cultural Coordination Commiss-ion will commit itself to promote the settlement of the issu- es arising from the establishment of airlink between Moscow and Taipei with appropriate governmental authorities of the Russian Federation; 2. The parties will make necessary arrangements to sign an Air Services Agreement as soon as possible and a preparatory con- sultation is to be held either in Taipei or Moscow before the end of 1992. Signed on the 22nd day of September 1992 in Taipei. (Signed) H. E. John H. Chang Chairman of the Taipei-Moscow Economic and Cultural Coordination Commission (Signed) H. E. Oleg Lobov Chairman of the Moscow-Taipei Economic and Cultural Coordination Commission