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This will be Ban Ki-moon's first visit to China since President Xi Jinping assumed office.
But consumer spending is still below peak levels and lags behind most other G7 countries.
Former Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani voiced their support for Rouhani.
Moscow also said that a US policy of arming Syrian rebels would lead to further escalation.
The surveillance scheme has sparked an outcry in Europe over concerns about privacy intrusions.
The drought has affected 1,400 municipalities and 22 million people, over 10 per cent of the country's population.
Putin has stressed that the IMF represents only a part of the global financial architecture reform.
Two Russian companies have received stakes in licenses to develop the Norwegian continental shelf in the Barents Sea.
The bill is likely to cost the country 1.3 trillion rupees ($23.9 billion) every year.
Nearly 50.5 million eligible voters can cast a ballot, according to Iran's interior ministry.
