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🗓 On June 15, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to #ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 paid a courtesy call on the Permanent Representative of Brunei Darussalam to ASEAN H.E. Ambassador Latifah Zaini 🇧🇳.
🤝The diplomats discussed the ASEAN-Russia Strategic Partnership and ASEAN-led fora agendas.
#RussiaASEAN #ASEANRussia #EAS #ARF
🇷🇺🇸🇬 H.E. Nikolay Kudashev, Russia’s Ambassador to Singapore, on future of #ASEAN-Russia cooperation:
💬Historically Russia is an integral part of Asia-Pacific security architecture, plays a decisive role in promotion of environment of peace and prosperity in Asia and the Pacific through fostering ASEAN Centrality through the last three decades.
https://alamak.io/2023/06/12/the-future-of-russia-asean-relations-unleashing-potential-through-cooperation-and-goodwill/
🇷🇺 On June 12, we celebrate #RussiaDay across the entire country and abroad.
It reflects #Russia’s contemporary development, as well as its centuries-old path, endeavours & achievements.
🇷🇺 Happy Russia Day!
#RussiaDay #RussiaDay2023 #Russia1Love #WeAreRussia
🇷🇺🤝🇺🇳 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin (heading the Russian interministerial delegation) and UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan (leading the UN Task Team) begin consultations on implementation of the Russia-UN Memorandum of Understanding on promoting Russian food products and fertilizers to global markets.
📍June 9, 2023, Geneva
🗓 On June 6, Russia celebrates #RussianLanguageDay.
On this day in 1799, the greatest poet, prose writer, playwright, historian, critic, and founder of the modern Russian literary language, Alexander Pushkin, was born.
🇷🇺 On June 6, 2011, the President of the Russian Federation signed an Executive Order on holding Russian Language Day annually in order to “preserve, support and promote the Russian language as a national treasure of the peoples of the Russian Federation, a means of international communication and an integral part of the cultural and spiritual heritage of world civilisation.”
• Support and promotion of the Russian language abroad is one of the most important tools for expanding international cultural cooperation between Russia and other countries.
• Russian has the status of a state and official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries.
🇺🇳 Russian is the official or working language in a number of international organisations, including the UN and some of its specialised agencies, the SCO, OSCE, CIS, EAEU, ATS, CSTO, ISO, CES, GUAM, IFRC and ICRC.
❗️ The Russian language is one of the most popular languages in the world:
• 6️⃣th most spoken language in the world;
• 8️⃣th most widespread language;
• 2️⃣nd by the number of websites on the Internet.
In general, about 146 million citizens of the Russian Federation and 130 million people abroad speak Russian.
#RussianLanguage #Pushkin
Russian Embassy in Singapore:
🗓On 1 June 1968, Russia and Singapore established diplomatic relations. Here is a brief overview of our bilateral relations that witnessed some notable milestones.
🇷🇺🇸🇬The history of Russia-Singapore ties goes back to the 19th century. Many Russian navigators and people of art visited Singapore in the past. In summer 1841, the naval transport "Abo" under the command of lieutenant commander Andrey Yunker visited the then free port.
⚓️ In his popular book "Frigate "Pallada", famous Russian writer Ivan Goncharov vividly depicted the adventures of the marine expedition under the flag of the Rear Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin from Kronstadt via Singapore to Japan.
🌏Russian writer and traveler Aleksey Vysheslavtsev portrayed Singapore in his "Essays Written with a Feather and a Pencil from the Round-the World Voyage in 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860", which were based on his impressions.
🤴On 27 March 1890, the Russian Consulate whose head became Artemiy Vyvodtsev, was opened in Singapore. The following year, it was visited by Crown Prince Nikolay Aleksandrovich - future Emperor Nikolay II - during his "Eastern voyage".
🤝The signing of the Trade Agreement between the USSR and Singapore on 2 April 1966 also became the milestone in building ties between the two countries.
#FamilyPhoto
📸 Foreign Ministers of the expanded "Friends of BRICS" format at the Family Photo ceremony
📍 Cape Town, June 2, 2023
Happy Vesak Day to all of our Buddhist friends in #ASEAN!
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of External Affairs of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hold talks.
📍 Cape Town, June 1, 2023
#RussiaIndia
⚡️The Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the Ukraine forces’ attempted terrorist attacks that took place in the early morning of May 30 in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
According to the Defence Ministry, the attacks were carried out with the use of eight fixed-wing UAVs. All of them were downed by the Russian air defence and electronic warfare systems. Five drones were shot down by Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile systems, and three other drones were suppressed by electronic warfare means, after which they lost control and went astray. Unfortunately, the drones that lost control fell on high-rise residential blocks of flats near the Moskovsky State Farm, Leninsky Prospekt and Profsoyuznaya Street. According to the responders, no serious injuries have been reported.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in this regard. We are confident that every person involved in it will be found and suffer severe punishment.
❌ These attacks were plotted and carried out by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, for which acts of terror have become an evil routine practice. Its representatives have long and openly called for “retaliation strikes” against Moscow. While making no sense from a military point of view, these attacks appear to be directed exclusively against civilians in order to sow panic among them.
Western support for the Kiev regime is emboldening the Ukrainian leadership towards committing increasingly reckless criminal acts, including acts of terrorism, violations of international humanitarian law and war crimes.
Assurances by NATO officials to the effect that the Kiev regime will not strike deep into Russian territory have turned out to be completely disingenuous.
❗️ The Russian side reserves the right to take tough measures in response to the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.
🗓May 29 marks the #EAEU Day.
🔹️Since the EAEU’s foundation, its member states have achieved visible results in promoting integration, with the internal market on the rise, steadily growing mutual trade and widened geography of international contacts.
❗️#ASEAN is one of the most important partners for the EAEU. Based on the MoU between the Eurasian Economic Commission and ASEAN and relevant Programme of cooperation the two regional organizations steadfastly promote multifaceted mutually beneficial relations.
🔹️Since 2018 the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum is hosting an annual EAEU-ASEAN Business Dialogue.
🤝The EAEU also pays special attention to strengthening ties with ASEAN Member States on the bilateral basis. On May 25 on the sidelines of the 2nd Eurasian Economic Forum in Moscow the EAEU-Indonesia 🇮🇩 Business Dialogue was held.
📄 Russia has consented to extend the Black Sea Initiative on Ukrainian food exports by two months. As a result, the agreement will remain in effect until the end of the planned 120-day cycle (through July 17), whereupon, as it is stipulated in the document, it can be terminated by an objecting party (Russia, Türkiye, or Ukraine).
However, almost immediately after the decision on extending the initiative was approved, the Westerners and the Ukrainians came forward with demands on a buildup and expansion of Ukrainian exports rather than a mere continuation of the maritime traffic. They habitually resorted to their hackneyed postulates on food security, famine relief, and aid to destitute countries, and got support from the UN staff.
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❗️ The situation being what it is, there are some legitimate questions we would like to ask. Why does Ukrainian grain continue to be successfully exported, while Russian ammonia is stuck in the port of Yuzhny? What did the UN Secretary-General coordinate in Kiev on March 8 and what is the point of his relevant proposals, if supplying this raw material of key importance for the production of fertilisers continues to be impeded by Ukraine’s endless additional requests? Where are all those champions of food security, who are so vociferous in calling for allowing the export of Ukrainian fodder corn and forage but are keeping mum when the Ukrainians and others block the export of Russian ammonia needed to produce food for 45 million people, primarily in African countries?
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If Rosselkhozbank is not connected to SWIFT and there is no progress on solving other system-wide problems that are blocking Russian agricultural exports, the Black Sea Initiative will also have to look for alternatives, such as the EU’s much vaunted land “solidarity corridors,” whereby large amounts of Ukrainian products are exported, if at a much greater internal and external cost.
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🎙 President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum.
🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇲 Other notable attendees included President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Mikhail Myasnikovich. President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping sent a video address to plenary session participants & guests. The plenary discussion was moderated by Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs.
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Key talking points:
🌐 More & more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic & foreign policy, & adhering to their own development model.
📈 Trade in the EAEU is growing at a fairly steady pace, which is also an important indicator of the effectiveness of our joint work.
☝️ It is no secret that our Western opponents are trying to compel many of our partners to curtail beneficial cooperation with Russia through persuasion & with various promises & blackmail. In the process, they do not care one bit about the losses to be sustained by these states and their peoples.
🤝 We are pursuing a policy of reducing the share of unfriendly countries’ currencies in mutual transactions & planning to expand our activities with our partners around the world, including the EAEU, in order to complete the transition to national currencies.
🤝 The Eurasian Union is also working hard to expand friendly ties with other countries in the near abroad, Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa & Latin America, which represent the absolute majority of the world's population & drive global growth.
🤝 We highly appreciate the engagement of our EAEU partners in aligning cooperation. I am positive that our integration experience can be used to promote existing & create new interaction formats throughout Eurasia & the world at large.
📢 Delighted to announce that the 3rd ASEAN-Russia Consultations of the High Representatives for Security Issues were successfully held in Moscow region on 23 May 2023 on the sidelines of the 11th International Meeting of High Level Officials Responsible for Security Matters.
🔹️This unique ASEAN-Russia platform proved to be an important venue for professional and open dialogue on issues related to regional and global security as well as developing multilateral interaction in combating common challenges and threats.
🔹️ During the meeting Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation H.E. Mr. Nikolai Patrushev 🇷🇺 reaffirmed Russia's commitment to ASEAN centrality in the region and its will to further deepen cooperation with #ASEAN in all dimensions including security.
🔹️For the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic the Consultations were conducted in person.
#ASEANRussia #RussiaASEAN
📢 On May 23 Director-General of the Department of Asia and Pacific Cooperation of the Russian MFA Mr. Alexey Ovchinnikov 🇷🇺 took part in the #EAS Ambassadors' Retreat on Regional Security Architecture in Bandung, Indonesia 🇮🇩.
❗️Russia pays special attention to this important platform for open discussion on regional security policies and development cooperation initiatives.
#EAS
🗓On June 14, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko 🇷🇺 participated in the ASEAN Regional Forum Senior Officials' Meeting (#ARF SOM) held online under Indonesian Chairmanship 🇮🇩.
🔹Senior officials discussed the progress achieved so far and issues related to preparation for the upcoming ARF Foreign Ministers' Meeting in July in Jakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩.
🇷🇺 As part of the exchange of views on topical issues in the Asia-Pacific, Russian delegation voiced its approach towards the military-political risks associated with building up a network of minilateral blocs in the region and bringing NATO potential to the East Asia.
☝️ Russia reiterated its position on the maintaining and strengthening the central role of #ASEAN in regional affairs based on ASEAN-led platforms of multilateral cooperation.
🇷🇺 Happy #RussiaDay!
A short visual guide on all things Russian - #admire, #embrace, #discover!
#RussiaDay #RussiaDay2023
⚓️ On June 5-8, 2023 Russian Navy ships took part in Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo 2023 «Partnership to Recover and to Rise Stronger» off coast of Makassar, Indonesia.
🇷🇺 A detachment of the Pacific Fleet ships comprising the corvettes «Gromky» and «Sovershenny» as well as the medium sea tanker «Pechenga»took part in the Exercise. Russian sailors also participated in the marine parade.
◽️ The joint activities were focused on developing maritime regional interaction, including carrying out humanitarian missions and providing assistance during natural disasters.
🇺🇳 On June 6, members of the UN General Assembly elected non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for 2024-2025.
Following the vote, Algeria 🇩🇿, Guyana 🇬🇾, the Republic of Korea 🇰🇷, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 and Slovenia 🇸🇮 will sit on the UN Security Council during the upcoming period.
We hope that during their work at this key body of the UN system the newly elected members will facilitate the long-term resolution of the most important crises of our time, help strengthen the central coordinating role of the UN in global affairs, as well as make the Organisation more effective, and contribute to the formation of a truly equitable multipolar world order based on the goals and principles of the UN Charter and other fundamental norms of international law.
🇷🇺 The Russian Federation, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is ready for mutually respectful cooperation with the new non-permanent members in maintaining international peace and security. We are convinced that this would meet the interests of the entire international community.
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🗓 On 30-31 May representatives of the Russian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence 🇷🇺 took part in the ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Support Group Meeting on Confidence Building Measures and Preventive Diplomacy (#ARF ISG on CBMs and PD) and ARF Defense Officials' Dialogue (ARF #DOD) in Dili under Indonesia and Timor-Leste co-chairmanship 🇮🇩🇹🇱.
🔹️ARF officials exchanged views on regional security developments, discussed progress achieved by the relevant ARF ISMs and outlined plans for the next Inter-Sessional Year 2023-2024, as well as agreed to foster open discussions and promote collaboration in defence-related matters.
#ARF #ISG #ARFDOD #DOD
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 On June 1-2, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in a #BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in Cape Town chaired by South Africa.
The Ministers held an in-depth discussion on a wide range of current international issues, cooperation at multilateral venues, ways to strengthen the BRICS countries’ strategic partnership, BRICS institution building, and preparations for the 15th BRICS summit scheduled for August 22-24.
The delegation heads spoke out for promoting multilateralism, preserving the UN’s leading role in the maintenance of peace and security, ensuring sustainable development, including through broader use of Africa’s potential and combating climate change, as well as boosting cooperation to attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
They reaffirmed their resolve to continue working in the five countries’ key areas of strategic partnership in politics, security, culture and humanitarian ties.
One of their priorities is the further development of interaction on the economic and financial tracks and stable operations of the New Development Bank.
Following the meeting, the Foreign Ministers adopted a joint statement.
The agenda also included an extended Friends of BRICS meeting attended by Foreign Ministers from 12 developing countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, the Comoro Islands, Cuba, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These contacts have become a good tradition and are helping strengthen interaction between the BRICS nations and like-minded countries.
🗓 June 2, 2023, marks 4️⃣7️⃣ years since the day our country established diplomatic relations with the Republic of the Philippines. It is on this day in 1976 that our two countries formalised their relations during the visit by President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos to Moscow.
🇷🇺🇵🇭 Today, our two nations maintain friendly relations and the Philippines is one of Russia’s key partners in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Russia and the Philippines have been proactive in strengthening their political dialogue. President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte paid official visits to Russia in 2017 and 2019. In 2017 and 2018, Russia hosted Sergey Lavrov’s talks with Foreign Minister of the Philippines Alan Cayetano.
The two countries’ parliaments, ministries and agencies have been effective in working together. There is also a mechanism for holding foreign ministry-level consultations, as well as a Joint Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation.
🤝 Russia and the Philippines have a wealth of experience in constructive bilateral cooperation across a variety of sectors. Our two countries have been working closely together and fruitfully in the United Nations, as well as within APR’s integration associations.
📈 There has been positive momentum in stepping up trade and economic cooperation too. Annual trade between our two countries has amounted to about $1 billion for several years now.
The effort to expand humanitarian ties carries on. The Philippines has already hosted several major cultural and business events in 2023.
In 2013, the Philippines introduced visa-free travel for Russian nationals staying in the country for up to 30 days.
🇷🇺🇵🇭 🤝 We wholeheartedly congratulate our colleagues and friends in the Philippines on this anniversary, and are certain that Russia and the Philippines will keep generating positive momentum for further strengthening our relations.
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We congratulate our Indonesian partners and friends on commemorating the Birthday of Pancasila 🇮🇩!
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Second Eurasian Economic Forum results summarized
👉 More than 2,700 participants and media representatives from Russia and 59 countries and territories attended the forum.
Among them were four head of states, five deputy prime ministers, nine ministers, representatives of 38 foreign delegations and thirteen head diplomats.
🌐 Also, heads of international organizations and associations visited the forum, including SCO and CIS.
✍🏻 Several agreements have been signed on the sidelines of the event.
🗓 The business program consisted of 35 sessions. The main topics were as follows:
▪the preparation of new long-term planning documents and defining the main areas for cooperation on integration until 2030 and 2045;
▪the development of EAEU cooperation with countries from beyond the CIS;
▪customs regulations;
▪prospects for the market within the EAEU;
▪digital transformation;
▪improving mechanisms for international settlement.
Read about other results of the forum here.
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🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin’s address at the 11th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues (Moscow, May 25, 2023)
Key points:
💬 The collective West is continuing its disinformation campaign designed to blame Russia for the current crisis in the global food market.
❗️The illegal unilateral sanctions adopted by the collective West against Russia have seriously unbalanced global markets. Systemic restrictions have affected all economic operators and have disrupted traditional financial and logistics links and supply chains.
🔹 While accusing Russia of provoking famine without proof, the Americans and Europeans are not only strongly rejecting any indications of the destructive impact of their sanctions, but are also carefully sidestepping the fact that the rising prices of food and fertilisers and the unstable supplies of these goods to world markets benefits the largest Western agricultural corporations, in particular, the so-called big four.
🔹 An excellent example of the Western blockade of Russian agricultural exports is the free delivery of Russian fertilisers (262,000 tonnes) to the poorest countries, which have been stuck in the ports of Latvia, Estonia, Belgium and the Netherlands.
🇷🇺 Despite the sanctions, barriers and restrictions, Russia continues working to maintain our export potential, including by redirecting exports to friendly countries, primarily in Asia and Africa.
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Supreme Eurasian Economic Council expanded meeting. The President’s key points:
🔸Cooperation continues to strengthen within the EAEU, which is consistently asserting itself as one of the independent and self-sufficient centres of the emerging multipolar world.
🔸The five countries interact on the principles of mutual benefit and respect for each other's interests, focusing on ensuring sustainable economic growth. Russia’s chairmanship of the EAEU this year is aimed at these key goals.
🔸We will strive to achieve an equally high level of development within our association.
🔸 It is necessary to maintain real freedom of movement of goods, services, finances and human capital within the union, to ensure a synergy of all member states’ competitive advantages.
The President outlined objectives for further cooperation in the EAEU:
🔹Development of industrial cooperation, with more new joint ventures using the common Made in the EAEU trademark. At the same time, it is important that the Eurasian quality mark on goods is real proof that the products meet the highest standards.
🔹Strengthening technological sovereignty in the backbone sectors and achieving true technological self-sufficiency. Coordination of common priorities for technological transformation and innovative cooperation.
🔹 Building a single digital ecosystem, with the integration of national systems of digital public services and electronic governments.
🔹Ensuring a stable banking and payment infrastructure; development and harmonisation of the Eurasian financial market. This will create favourable conditions for capital to remain within the EAEU borders and for it to be invested in further strengthening the five economies.
🔹The establishment of a Eurasian rating agency that would provide balanced assessment tools to service the growing economic activity in the EAEU.
🔹 Introducing the concept of freedom of knowledge, to be exercised on the basis of general principles and standards of education, healthcare and public administration. This should contribute to the formation of a common cultural space.
🔹Promoting tourism development in the EAEU; creating a network of new tourist routes.
🔹Coordination of national educational and research programmes; harmonisation of requirements for professions; development of common educational and professional standards.
🔹Strengthening, development and modernisation of supranational institutions, primarily the Eurasian Economic Commission, which must quickly and effectively respond to changes taking place in the world.
🔹Further work to establish free trade zones with interested countries using the existing EAEU international payment infrastructure in national currencies.
💬 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 11th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues (May 24, 2023)
Key talking points:
🔹US is intentionally seeking to escalate tension around Taiwan as part of its so-called Indo-Pacific strategies. Washington has been drawing its satellites, not only those in Europe, but also in the Far East into its destructive plots.
🔹 During the NATO summit in Madrid, the West proclaimed the principle of indivisible security in the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions, deciding to deal a fatal blow to the #ASEAN-centric security architecture in that part of the world.
🔹Instead of effectively cooperating for the benefit of all, the Anglo-Saxons have been deploying NATO’s military infrastructure in the region, established AUKUS and other variable-geometry military and political alliances in an attempt to draw several Southeast Asian countries into these incendiary games. All this cannot but cause serious concern.
🔹Some truly democratic interstate organisations are likely to provide crucial support in this work, organisations promoting a constructive, creative, and forward-looking agenda, and based on consensus rather than on the bloc discipline of the rod. Intensifying versatile ties between multilateral associations in Greater Eurasia, including the CSTO, the EAEU, CIS, SCO, #ASEAN, and CCAS, is highly relevant as well.
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🎙 Video address of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the participants of the 11th International meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues.
💬 Over years, your regular communication and exchange of experience and assessments have proved their importance and helped resolve key issues of ensuring global and regional security and strategic stability.
Your agenda today is also quite packed and important. First, you will discuss the international situation at hand and its prospects, analyse major modern threats, including international terrorism, extremism, arms and drug trafficking, transnational crime and illegal migration and, of course, food and cyber security matters.
❗️ Clearly, the international situation can be described in terms of mounting instability. Different regions see old hotbeds of tension expand and new ones emerge, the negative burden of conflicts is piling up, and people in many countries are experiencing the dramatic aftermath of the foreign-engineered coups.
This state of affairs directly stems from the desire of individual states and associations to preserve their dominance and impose their rules as they continue to act in complete disregard of other countries’ sovereignty, national interests and traditions.
🤝 We highly appreciate the fact that Russia has many partners in different regions and on different continents and the historically strong, friendly, and trust-based ties with the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and we will work to fortify them in every way we can.
I am sure that acting together we will build a more just multipolar world, and the exceptionalism-driven ideology, as well as the neo-colonial system that made it possible to exploit the resources of the whole world, will inevitably become a thing of the past.
I hope you will have a constructive and productive meeting, and outline new forms and areas of practical cooperation for the good of our countries and peoples in the interests of peace and stability on the planet
📢Ambassador of the Russian Federation to #ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 is taking part in the Second East Asia Summit (#EAS) Ambassadors' Meeting in Jakarta (#EAMJ) held this time in Bandung, Indonesia 🇮🇩 on May 23.
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