🇱🇦 December 2 marks the 49th Anniversary of the proclamation of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

The Lao People's Democratic Republic was proclaimed in 1975 following a long and intensive struggle, combined with political and diplomatic efforts to secure the country’s neutrality amidst foreign aggression in Indochina.

🤝 The Soviet Union and Laos established diplomatic relations on October 7, 1960. On March 9, 1994, Russia and Laos signed the Treaty on the Foundations of Friendly Relations. In October 2011, Russia and Laos adopted the Declaration on Strategic Partnership in the Asia Pacific Region.

Today, our countries are steadily expanding their trust-based dialogue and the high and highest levels, as well as enhancing interaction between parliaments and sectoral agencies. They are also intensifying trade, economic, cultural, humanitarian and interregional ties within the framework of the Russia-Laos strategic partnership.

🎉 We extend our heartfelt congratulations to our Lao friends on this holiday! We reaffirm our commitment to further strengthening our traditionally friendly relations and multifaceted partnership with Vientiane, in the interests of peace and stability in Southeast Asia and the entire Asia-Pacific region.

#RussiaLaos #RussiaASEAN

📄 Joint Ministerial Statement of the 35th APEC Ministerial Meeting 2024 (Lima, Peru)

• In reaffirming our commitment to the APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040 of an open, dynamic, resilient and peaceful Asia-Pacific community by 2040 for the prosperity of all our people and future generations, including by implementing the Aotearoa Plan of Action (APA), and under the APEC 2024 theme “Empower. Include. Grow.,” we have advanced APEC’s cooperation agenda through three thematic priorities:

✅ trade and investment for inclusive and interconnected growth;

✅ innovation and digitalization to promote transition to the formal and global economy;

✅ sustainable growth for resilient development. <...>

👉 Empower

• We commend APEC’s work this year in encouraging innovation and digitalization to promote the transition from the informal to the formal economy, including through focused discussions and policy dialogues. <...>

• We recognize the essential role of an enabling, open, fair, non-discriminatory, safer and more inclusive digital ecosystem that facilitates trade, and the importance of enhancing trust and security in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) <...>

👉 Include

• We emphasize the importance of realizing the economic potential of all. We acknowledge the valuable contributions of persons with disabilities to economic growth in the region, while recognizing the need to provide them with more opportunities. <...>

• We acknowledge the contributions to inclusive economic growth of Indigenous Peoples as appropriate and welcome further dialogues and collaborative efforts focused on capacity-building to increase their participation in regional and global markets. <...>

• We emphasize the importance of assisting the region’s small and medium enterprises, including by embracing digital tools and fostering innovation, expanding financial inclusion initiatives, enhancing supply chain networks <...>.

👉 Grow

• We reiterate our commitment to working together to deliver a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, inclusive, and predictable trade and investment environment. <...>

• As we mark the 30th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO), we reiterate our support for the rules-based multilateral trading system, with the WTO at its core. We commit to work towards necessary reform of the WTO, in order to improve all its functions <...>

• We commit to safeguarding secure, resilient, inclusive, effective, sustainable, open and interconnected supply chains. <...>

👉 Strengthening APEC

• We reaffirm our commitment to strengthening APEC as an important and effective economic cooperation forum in the Asia-Pacific region, and reaffirm its voluntary, non-binding and consensus-building principles. <...>

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🗓On December 10, teams of the Russian Mission to ASEAN 🇷🇺 and Indonesian Mission to ASEAN 🇮🇩 met over a friendly lunch.
Diplomats discussed prospects for further development of the ASEAN-Russia Strategic Partnership and cooperation within the ASEAN-led fora.

#ASEANRussia #RussiaASEAN #EAS #ARF #ADMMPlus

🎙 Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko comment to RT News on the sidelines of Valdai Discussion forum in Malaysia

⚡️ BRICS is one of the pillars of the emerging multipolar world order.

• #Malaysia is joining as a partner-country this year. In this new capacity Malaysia will be able to take advantage of the full capacity of the BRICS framework in terms of cooperation and strengthening its political role in world affairs.