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              and is conducive to stronger confidence between them. At the same time, there remain many
            
            
              issues between the three countries that hamper their economic cooperation and mutual invest-
            
            
              ment activities.
            
            
              There is no time to lose, especially bearing in mind that work is under way to lay alternative rail-
            
            
              road lines and other new transportation and logistical arteries. Past mistakes should not be al-
            
            
              lowed to block plans for major transcontinental transportation routes that would benefit Russia,
            
            
              Mongolia, and China.