Russian President Boris Yeltsin together with his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin (L) inspect a guard-of-honour during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing 10 November. Yeltsin and Jiang will later hold their fifth Sino-Russian summit before signing a border treaty and witnessing a framework accord on a gas pipeline from Siberia to northern China. AFP PHOTO GOH Chai Hin