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🇷🇺🛬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Vientiane to take part in regular ministerial meetings related to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (#ASEAN).
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▪️ President of Russia Vladimir Putin extended his condolences to President of Vietnam To Lam on the passing of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong.
The message reads, in part:
🖊 “Nguyen Phu Trong devoted his whole life to serving his homeland. Over the years of serving in high-responsibility state and party posts, he has earned deep respect from his compatriots and significant weight in international affairs. In Russia, he will always be remembered as a true friend of our country, who made a great personal contribution to the establishment and development of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Moscow and Hanoi.
I had a chance to spend time with this wonderful person many times, and I will forever cherish the memory of him. I ask you to convey my words of sincere sympathy and support to the family and friends of the deceased, as well as to all the friendly people of Vietnam.”
🎙 Statement by FM Sergey Lavrov during the UNSC meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order
📍 New York, July 16, 2024
💬 Today, the very foundations of the international legal order - strategic stability and the UN-centric system of international politics - are put to the test. We won’t be able to resolve the mounting conflicts unless we understand their root causes and restore faith in our ability to join forces for the common good and justice for all.
Let’s face it: not all countries represented in this chamber recognise the key principle of the UN Charter which is the sovereign equality of all states. Speaking through its presidents, the US has long declared its exceptionalism. This applies to Washington’s attitude towards its allies, whom it demands to be unquestioningly obedient even to the detriment of their national interests.
👉 Rule, America! This is the thrust of the notorious “rules-based order” which presents a direct threat to multilateralism and international peace.
The most important components of international law - the UN Charter and the resolutions of our Council - are interpreted by the collective West in a perverse and selective manner, depending on the instructions coming from the White House.
Key talking points:
• Washington’s hegemonistic policy has been the same for decades. Absolutely all schemes of Euro-Atlantic security were based on America’s domination, including the subjugation of Europe and the “containment” of Russia. The main role in this was assigned to NATO, which has ultimately tramped down the European Union that had been created to serve Europeans. The alliance has unceremoniously privatised OSCE bodies in brazen violation of the Helsinki Final Act.
• The unrestrained enlargement of NATO, which went on for years contrary to Moscow’s warnings, has also provoked the Ukraine crisis that began with the state coup organised by Washington in February 2014 to seize full control of Ukraine and use the neo-Nazi regime they brought to power to prepare an attack on Russia.
• NATO’s military infrastructure is moving into the Pacific with the obvious aim of undermining the ASEAN-centric architecture, which has for many decades been built on the principles of equality, mutual interests and consensus.
• Where are the free market attributes that the US and its allies have been telling everyone to follow for so many years? Market economy, fair competition, inviolability of private property, presumption of innocence, freedom of movement of people, goods, capital and services - all of these have been scrapped.
• The pivotal element of the reform of the UN should be the reshuffle of the UN Security Council, <...> which clearly has too many representatives of the collective West. A badly needed step is to reach the broadest accord possible on the concrete parameters of the reform, which should increase the representation of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
• The personnel policy of the UN Secretariat should be changed as well to eliminate the domination of Western citizens and subjects in the administrative UN bodies. The UN Secretary-General and his staff must faithfully and with no exceptions comply with the principles of impartiality and neutrality.
• #BRICS and the #SCO are playing an increasing role in the development of a just multilateral world based on the principles of the UN Charter. Their member states represent different regions and civilisations whose interaction is based on equality, mutual respect, consensus and mutually accepted compromises, which is the golden standard of multilateral cooperation involving great powers.
❗️ The UN will be able to overcome current disagreements and to reach consensus on most issues if everyone, without exception, honours its letter and spirit. “The end of history” has failed to materialise. Let us work together in the interests of launching the history of genuine multilateralism that reflects the entire wealth of cultural and civilisational diversity of the world’s nations.
🗓 On July 13, the 16th ASEAN-Russia Senior Economic Officials Meeting (#SEOM-Russia consultation) was held in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹️Participants discussed the key dimensions of the ASEAN-Russia Trade and Investment Work Programme for 2021-2025: agriculture, digital economy, logistics, climate change, tourism, creative economy. Russia 🇷🇺 and #ASEAN Member States agreed to develop and adopt in 2025 the new Strategic Programme of trade and investment cooperation.
🔹️Delegates expressed support to enhancing the scope of joint projects under the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Financial Fund (#ARDPF).
🔹️Both sides also highlighted a number of the ASEAN-#EAEU projects and capacity building initiatives.
🇷🇺🇮🇳 The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin presented the Order of St Andrew the Apostle to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. The ceremony was held in St Andrew’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
💬 Vladimir Putin: It is a great honour for me to present the highest order of the Russian Federation, the Order of St Andrew the Apostle, to Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi.
🎖 It is the oldest order instituted more than three centuries ago by Russian Emperor Peter the Great. According to the statute, the order is awarded to outstanding Russian politicians and public figures as well as foreign leaders for distinguished service. <...>
By presenting the Order of St Andrew the Apostle, we express sincere gratitude for the contribution you have made to strengthening friendship and mutual understanding between our countries and nations. You have always been a strong advocate of expanding contacts with Russia. Back when you were the chief minister of the state of Gujarat, you proposed establishing sister ties with Russian regions, in particular, with the Astrakhan Region.
🤝 As the head of the Indian government for the past ten years, you have made tangible efforts to ensure that Russia-India relations become a specially privileged strategic partnership.
It is with your direct support that largest Russia-India projects have been implemented successfully in trade and the economy, in the military-technical industry, nuclear and hydrogen energy, in high technology and space development. It is hard to overestimate your contribution to shaping a steady foundation for Russia-India cooperation in the international arena, where both our countries protect the principles of multipolarity and strict compliance with international law.
🌐 Russia and India work together to ensure stability and global and regional security, and closely cooperate at #BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO).
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🗓 On June 30 - July 5 and June 20-21, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 took part in the 14th ASEANAPOL Contact Persons Meeting (#ACPM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾 and the 12th ASEANAPOL Training Cooperation Meeting (#ATCM) in Vientiane, Laos 🇱🇦.
🔹️Russian delegates undelined the important role #ASEANAPOL plays in strengthening cooperation and information exchange between law-enforcement agencies of the countries of the region in the sphere of combating terrorism, extremism and transnational organized crime.
🔹️The Russian side reaffirmed its commitment to further promote ties with ASEANAPOL including by enhancing capacity building efforts through increasing the quantity and widening the scope of the specialized trainings for law-enforcement experts from #ASEAN Member States that Russia 🇷🇺 has been conducting since 2012.
📢 On July 3, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to #ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 took part in the Second Meeting of the Group of the East Asia Summit (#EAS) Participating Countries' Ambassadors to ASEAN (EAS Group Meeting) held in Cianjur, Indonesia 🇮🇩.
🔹️Russian Ambassador undelined the important role of this platform in implementing EAS Leader's decisions and promoting tangible cooperation between the EAS Participating Countries.
🔹️On the same day H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov and Deputy Director-General of the Department of Asia and Pacific Cooperation of the Russian MFA Mr. Timur Zevakhin 🇷🇺 took part in the #EAS Group Retreat on Regional Security and Cooperation. Russian delegation came up with several ideas on the ways to enhance the effectiveness of the EAS process.
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🗓 On June 27, Russian delegation 🇷🇺 held its first expert consultations in digital sphere with ASEAN (#ADGSOM-ATRC Joint Working Group Meeting with Russia) in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam 🇧🇳.
🔹️Participants discussed relevant draft Work Plan and outlined main areas of cooperation and further steps in developing ASEAN-Russia ties in digital sphere.
🛬 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin arrives in Astana to take part in the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) Heads of State Council.
📍 July 3, 2024
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🗓 On June 28, Russian delegation headed by the Deputy Director of the Department of New Challenges and Threats of the MFA Vladimir Salov 🇷🇺 took part in the 16th ASEAN-Russia Senior Officials' Meeting on Transnational Crime (#SOMTC + Russia Consultation) in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🤝 Experts from ASEAN and Russia exchanged views on regional and global security and confirmed readiness to build up relevant ASEAN-Russia cooperation as well as outlined further practical steps in the field of combatting transnational crime.
🔹️ On the sidelines of the event Russian delegation held bilateral consultations with Cambodia 🇰🇭 and Laos 🇱🇦.
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🗓 On June 27, Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN H.E Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 received the Permanent Representative of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to ASEAN H.E. Ambassador Dr Ton Thi Ngoc Huong 🇻🇳 with a courtesy call.
🤝The diplomats discussed the ASEAN-Russia Strategic Partnership and ASEAN-led fora agendas.
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🗓 On June 25-26, delegation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 took part in the 8th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Peacekeeping Experts' Meeting in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
🔹️Participants exchanged views on ways of advancing the performance of UN peacekeepers through collaborative training and capacity building partnerships, issues related to the improvement of safety and security of peacekeepers and other matters relevant to the UN peacekeeping agenda. ARF officials also visited the Indonesian Armed Forced Peacekeeping Center.
🗓 On June 21, team of the Russian Mission to ASEAN took part in the celebration of the International Day of Yoga at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta.
We are grateful to the Indian Mission to ASEAN for this wonderful initiative. 🙏
🇷🇺🇻🇳 The President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the wreath-laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square.
ℹ️ The mausoleum was opened to visitors in September 1975. It is a two-story building made of grey marble, with a transparent sarcophagus containing the body of Vietnam's first President on the first floor. The mausoleum was designed and built with the assistance of Soviet specialists.
We congratulate all our Muslim friends across #ASEAN with Eid al-Adha! 🕌 ☪️
May this holiday bring you joy and peace! Eid Al-Adha Mubarak!
🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting with directors of Russian non-profit organisations (July 23, 2024)
Key talking points:
🔹The role of public diplomacy has grown compared to the earlier period, primarily when it comes to maintaining a healthy atmosphere of confidence in relations with our foreign partners and explaining problems created by the West.
🔹 This applies to the the countries which we regard as unfriendly. I believe that we should use this term for governments, whereas the mood in the countries is largely determined by people’s lives and aspirations. I do not see any nation on the planet that would be unfriendly to our people in the first place.
🔹 I am aware that pubic organisations in Western countries somehow manage to maintain ties with some of their partners in Russia. This interaction is extremely important for keeping up relations at the level of civil societies and trying to understand each other.
🔹 We are beginning to see the outlines of a new multipolar world order. Nations around the world want to see their right to rule their destinies respected, and are searching for new ways of addressing various issues as alternatives to Western solutions.
🔹 The West is not ready to engage in mutually beneficial and equal cooperation. It has been seeking to hold on to its erstwhile standing which follows the path of irreversible, albeit slow, degradation. The NATO Summit in Washington provided yet another example of this process by adopting a declaration which once again emphasised the West’s unilateral approaches.
🔹 Today, Europe has been reduced to acting as Washington’s subject. Germany, for example, is the cornerstone of European politics and economy, but it still had to stomach the terrorist attacks against the Nord Stream pipelines which undermined its economic and social wellbeing. It had to pretend that this is the way it had to be.
🔹 The process of eradicating the centralised dictatorial model that America’s globalisation has morphed into will go hand in hand with regionalisation of economic processes. Preferably, in view of their interdependence with the global economy, the developments in Eurasia, Africa and Latin America ought to be coordinated and harmonised to a certain extent. #BRICS is quite capable of doing that.
🔹 We certainly believe that the United Nations remains a unique platform for universal cooperation that has no alternative. The UN Charter principles are relevant as never before.
🔹 I said earlier that Eurasia is emerging as an independent part of the multipolar and polycentric world. We are moving forward towards creating a Greater Eurasian Partnership, something that President Vladimir Putin mentioned 10 years back. Since then, this process has led to stronger ties between #EAEU, #SCO, and #ASEAN.
🔹 We trust that non-governmental and non-profit organisations will actively participate in these processes and continue to contribute to the overall efforts seeking to strengthen Russia’s position on the continent and around the world, including the promotion of the Russian language and our multiethnic culture.
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🎙 Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order (New York, July 16, 2024)
💬 The actions of the US and its allies are hindering international cooperation and the creation of a more just world. They have taken countries and regions hostage, prevent nations from realising their sovereign rights declared in the UN Charter
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I am confident that this situation can be changed if there is good will, of course. To stop the implementation of a negative scenario, we would like to propose to discuss a number of steps towards restoring trust and stabilising the international situation.
1. The root causes of the ongoing crisis in Europe should be eliminated once and for all. The conditions for restoring stable peace in Ukraine have been put forth by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
A political and diplomatic settlement should be complemented with practical steps, to be taken in the West and the Euro-Atlantic community, to remove threats to the Russian Federation. The coordination of mutual guarantees and agreements should be based on the recognition of the new geostrategic realities on the Eurasian continent, where a continental architecture of really equal and indivisible security is taking shape. Europe risks lagging behind this objective historical process. We are ready to discuss a balance of interests.
2. The restoration of the regional and global balance of forces should be accompanied with active efforts to eliminate injustices in the global economy. There must be no monopoly in monetary and financial regulation, trade and technologies, by definition. <...>
3. Major fundamental changes are necessary in other institutes of global governance if we want them to work to the benefit of all. This primarily concerns the United Nations Organisation, which remains the embodiment of multilateralism against all the odds, with unique and universal legitimacy and universally recognised broad competencies.
An important step towards the restoration of the UN’s effectiveness would be the reconfirmation by all Member States of their commitment to the principles of the UN Charter, not selectively but in their entirety and as a whole. <...>
4. Regional associations have practical significance for the development of multipolarity, including the #CIS, the #CSTO, the #EAEU, #ASEAN, the Gulf Cooperation Council (#GCC), the Arab League, the African Union and #CELAC. <...>.
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❗️It depends on member countries alone whether our world will be diverse and equitable. The Charter of our Organisation is our foothold.
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🗓 On July 14, Russian delegation took part in the 13th EAS Senior Economic Officials Meeting (#EAS SEOM consultation) in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹️Participants discussed key regional and global economic challenges, possible collective response and potential directions for cooperation, taking into consideration the discussions held at the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference and ongoing work in the WTO.
🔹️Russia 🇷🇺 informed the Meeting on its economic development pace and shared thoughts on how and in which spheres to promote tangible interaction.
🏸🏆 The team of the Russian Mission to ASEAN and Russian Embassy in Indonesia 🇷🇺 took part in a friendly badminton tournament with #ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta 🇮🇩. The teams faced off in a friendly yet competitive atmosphere.
🙏 Always happy to meet ASEAN friends both at working meeting and sports venues!
🇷🇺🇮🇳 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, on an official visit to Russia, held talks in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
💬 Vladimir Putin: Mr Prime Minister, this is your first official visit after your reappointment following parliamentary elections. I would like to congratulate you on this once again.
Our countries have long-time friendship and good relations that have evolved over the decades. This year, we are marking the 77th Anniversary of diplomatic relations.
Today, our relations have the status of a specially privileged strategic partnership. We are in permanent contact, and we prioritise the development of trade and economic ties. Certainly, their development meets the interests of the people of India and the peoples of the Russian Federation.
📈 Last year, our trade soared by 60 percent and even more, by 66 percent; it increased by an additional 20 percent in the first quarter of 2024.
🌐 We cooperate closely on the international arena, including at international organisations, primarily the #UN and such associations as the #SCO and #BRICS.
Yesterday, we had an opportunity to discuss virtually all practical issues in an informal setting. I am grateful to you for devoting attention to the most acute issues and for trying to find some options for resolving the Ukraine crisis, primarily by peaceful methods.
Mr Prime Minister, we will be delighted to see you in Kazan this autumn at the upcoming BRICS Summit.
At the end of my opening remarks, I would like to wish you new successes in facilitating the development of the Indian state. You and I know each other for a long time, and I know that your entire life is devoted to implementing the idea of strengthening the Indian state and improving the life of the people of India.
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✈️🎫 ASEAN and Russia 🇷🇺 are proud to announce the launch of the initiative “Expanding Business Contacts between Russia and ASEAN Countries’ Tourism Enterprises through Russian Language Training and Experience Exchange” - a landmark program designed to foster mutual understanding, enhance cultural exchange, and strengthen ties between ASEAN Member States and Russia. This initiative, funded by the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Fund (#ARDPF), is taking place from July to August 2024.
🔹️The project aims to strengthen ties between tourism enterprises in Russia and ASEAN by offering targeted Russian language training and promoting experience exchange.
🔹️Within the framework of the project around 50 participants (in 2 batches) from all ASEAN Member States will get a full-time study of the Russian language, culture, history and cuisine. They will take part in excursions and practices aimed at better understanding the Russian tourist market, studying of the peculiarity of working with Russian tourists’ groups including the methods of attraction of Russian tourists, as well as providing tourist services at a high level.
🔹️This initiative also includes familiarization tours, master classes, workshops and round table discussions with major Russian tour operators, tour agencies and leading hotels in order to get all necessary recommendations for attracting ASEAN countries’ tourists to Russia and share information on new Russian tourist products.
🚩Started in 2010 with an online language course for tour operators from ASEAN, through the years this initiative has been developed into a comprehensive program that includes not only language studies, but also history, culture and field visits in Russia. As a result, more than 160 professionals from ASEAN returned to their countries as Russian speaking tour operators, guides, and hoteliers and now work with Russian tourists, as well as promote Russian tourism products in the region.
🤝The project's outcome is expected to be an increase in mutual tourist flows through the development and implementation of new and interesting tourist products, ensuring a comfortable and safe stay for tourists, introducing new technologies and methods of working with tourists, and improving the linguistic competence of industry staff from ASEAN Member States.
🗓 On July 2, delegation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 headed by the Rear Admiral Konstantin Zadorin took part in the #ASEAN Regional Forum Security Policy Conference (#ASPC) in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹️Russian delegation conveyed to the participants the position of the Russian Ministry of Defence on the current military-political situation in the world and the Asia-Pacific region. Rear Admiral Konstantin Zadorin also presented assessments of potential threats to international and regional security calling ARF participants to follow the key principles of ASEAN-led mechanisms to ensure collective security through constructive, equal and mutually beneficial dialogue.
🔹️On the sidelines of the conference, a number of bilateral meeting with delegations of Indonesia 🇮🇩, China 🇨🇳, Laos 🇱🇦, Malaysia 🇲🇾, and Thailand 🇹🇭 were held.
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hold talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) Heads of State Council meeting.
📍 Astana, July 3
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🗓 On June 27, Russian Ministry of Energy and Russian Energy Agency 🇷🇺 took part in the 15th #ASEAN-Russia Senior Officials' Meeting on Energy (#SOME-Russia) in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹The meeting reviewed the progress of implementation of the ASEAN-Russia Work Plan on Energy Cooperation for 2023-2025 and identified further steps aimed at intensifying substantive interaction between Russia and ASEAN in the field of energy security and energy transition.
🔹Parties also discussed new joint project on energy statistics under the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Financial Fund.
🔹️ On the sidelines of the event Director General of the Russian Energy Agency Mr. Alexey Kulapin and Executive Director of ASEAN Centre for Energy (#ACE) Dr Nuki Agya Utama held a meeting.
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🗓 On July 1, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 and Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Indonesia H.E. Mr. Raman Ramanouski 🇧🇾 paid a joint courtesy call on the Secretary-General of ASEAN Dr. Kao Kim Hourn at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
🔹️Prospects for promoting dialogue and multilateral cooperation in Eurasia, as well as developing ties of Russia and Belarus with #ASEAN were touched upon.
🗓 On June 26, Russian Ambassador to ASEAN H.E Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 took part in the “Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC): Reflections and Future Direction” held at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
Key points of Ambassador's remarks:
🔹️Drafted against the backdrop of the Cold War, the #TAC was conceived as a tool to prevent rivalry, confrontation and conflicts. These goals remain relevant today.
🔹️Built upon the principles of the UN Charter the TAC translates the values of multilateralism and equitable cooperation into the regional perspective aiming to preclude any forms of domination or supremacy, double standards or coercion, including illegal unilateral coercive measures.
🔹️Currently the principles of the TAC are threatened by the logic of containment and confrontation. The proliferation of blocs and coalitions in Asia-Pacific leads to its militarization while undermining ASEAN centrality.
🔹️It clearly follows from the TAC that no state should put its political goals above the peace and stability of others. Developing a region-wide system of equal and indivisible security on that basis would be the best way to tackle the emerging challenges.
🔹️As provided for in Article 4 of the TAC, Russia 🇷🇺 consistently proposes tangible initiatives in existing ASEAN-led fora, including the #EAS, for instance, establishing a regional mechanism of infectious diseases prevention and control, or launching a dialogue on tourism among relevant agencies. Practical work in the EAS and other ASEAN-led structures that is now largely replaced by politicized exercises should be resumed.
🔹️The TAC offers a good basis for enhancing cross-platform ties of #ASEAN with other regional organizations, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (#EAEU), thus contributing to a seamless transregional space of co-development.
The team of the Russian Mission to ASEAN and Russian Embassy in Indonesia 🇷🇺 took part in a friendly chess game with ASEAN Secretariat staff at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
Russian Ambassador to ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov and Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Community and Corporate Affairs H.E. Mr. Nararya Soeprapto kickstarted the event with their chess match.
Grateful to ASEAN Secretariat for this wonderful opportunity to foster connections beyond official diplomatic engagements. ♟️♟️♟️
🇷🇺🇻🇳 Russia's President Vladimir Putin and President of Vietnam To Lam made statements to the media (June 20, 2024)
💬 Vladimir Putin: Russia places great emphasis on further strengthening the Russian-Vietnamese comprehensive, long-standing and friendly relations, our strategic partnership. Our ties continue to expand and progress in the spirit of equality, mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests. Our countries are linked by a strong bond of shared history. Next year will mark 75 years of diplomatic relations between Russia and Vietnam. <...>
Today, Comrade President and I have adopted a statement that supports the principles of the Russian-Vietnamese comprehensive strategic partnership and announces new guidelines for our joint work in the future.
☝️ I would like to mention the tangible benefits our friends have derived from the Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union. Enacted in 2016, it has since then vastly promoted growth in Russian-Vietnamese trade through favourable conditions for access of goods and services to each other’s markets, also fostering investment, technology exchange and innovation.
Equally important is that our countries are consistently pursuing the transition to settlements in national currencies and striving to create sustainable channels of cooperation in lending activities and banking.
⚛️ A strategic point of our bilateral cooperation is the energy sector. <...> Russia and Vietnam have excellent opportunities for cooperation in renewable energy. <...> Another promising area for expanding bilateral cooperation is nuclear energy.
We consider our cooperation on the Vladivostok – Ho Chi Minh City maritime transport corridor, a large-scale infrastructure project, to be highly promising. Since its opening in 2022, this corridor has facilitated regular cargo shipments with container ships operating on a weekly basis.
Currently, more than 3,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from Vietnam are studying in Russian universities.
🤝 Russia's and Vietnam's respective stances on these issues are largely in accord or closely aligned. Our countries remain committed to the principles of the rule of international law, sovereignty, and non-interference in countries' domestic affairs. They coordinate their efforts on key international platforms, including the UN, as well as within the #RussiaASEAN dialogue and at summits in East Asia.
During our discussion on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, we expressed mutual interest in building a strong and reliable security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region based on the principles of the non-use of force and peaceful settlement of disputes, with no room for closed military-political blocs.
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State visits of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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On June 18–19, Vladimir Putin will pay a friendly state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the invitation of the Chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un.
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On June 19–20, Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) Nguyen Phu Trong.
While in Hanoi, Vladimir Putin will meet with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong, President To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chính, and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man.
The talks will focus on the current status of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and Vietnam in the trade, economic, scientific, technological, and humanitarian spheres, as well as its development prospects. The leaders will also exchange opinions on topical issues on the international and regional agenda.
Following the talks, the sides will adopt a joint statement and sign a number of bilateral documents.
Friendly dinner with current and future Country Coordinator of the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership - Permanent Mission of Cambodia to ASEAN 🇰🇭 and Permanent Mission of Myanmar to ASEAN 🇲🇲.
Grateful for invaluable support and friendship!🙏