Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping said on Saturday in Moscow that China and Russia agree entirely with each other’s positions on the crisis in Syria and on North Korea’s nuclear program

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping said on Saturday in Moscow that China and Russia agree entirely with each other's positions on the crisis in Syria and on North Korea's nuclear program.

"The sides hold 100 percent coinciding positions on the issues of North Korea and Syria," Cheng, who was accompanying Vice Premier Li Keqiang on a visit to Russia, told reporters through an interpreter.

Russia and China have blocked two U.N. Security Council resolutions against Syria.

While publicly opposing foreign interference and particularly military intervention in Syria, they have both backed U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan in Security Council votes and urged the government and rebels to adhere to a ceasefire.

China and Russia criticized North Korea's defiant launch of long-range rocket this month, but both called for restraint.

Li, who is on track to succeed Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao later this year, met on Friday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who will be inaugurated to a six-year presidential term on May 7.