- Abagaitu Islet
Abagaitu Islet (zh-stp|s=阿巴该图洲渚|t=阿巴該圖洲渚|p=Ābāgāitú Zhōuzhǔ; _ru. Большой остров, Bolshoy Ostrov) is an islet in the
Argun River forming the border between thePeople's Republic of China andRussia .The island was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1929, a move not accepted by China, resulting in a border dispute that lasted more than seventy years.
On
October 14 ,2004 , theComplementary Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on the Eastern Section of the China-Russia Boundary was signed, in which Russia agreed to relinquish control over Abagaitu Islet. In 2005, the Russian Duma and the Chinese National People's Congress approved the agreement.
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