🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference on European security issues, Moscow, December 1, 2022 (excerpt):

💬 The West is acting to erode ASEAN, a comprehensive cooperation platform with such formats as the ASEAN Regional Forum, East Asia Summit and ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus, which have been generally recognised as backbone mechanisms of cooperation in the fields of security, the economy and other areas. They are doing their best to undermine these platforms. Security issues have been removed from the ASEAN agenda. The United States is trying to involve half of the ASEAN nations in its plans, and the other half are keeping away because they are aware of the risks involved.

❗️Washington is taking obviously destructive measures against the comprehensive mechanisms created in Europe and Asia Pacific to address security issues based on equality and a balance of interests.

Read in full👉https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1841407/?lang=en

#AsiaPacific #ASEAN #ARF #ADMMPlus #EAS

⭐️ Precious memorable moments of our ASEAN friends participating in the complex training “The use of Modern Molecular Genetic Technologies in Ensuring Biological Safety” in Vladivostok, Russia 🇷🇺. 🙏

🎓 1-year project, held under the auspices ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership, was aimed at increasing the ASEAN countries capacity for early detection and diagnosis of infectious diseases by improving the skills of specialists in the field of epidemiology, virology and bacteriology.

#RussiaASEAN

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Primakov Readings International Forum, Moscow, December 7, 2022 (excerpt):

🔻 It is obvious that the ongoing deregulation of the international system of relations is rooted in the unwillingness of the Western minority to abandon its hegemonistic aspirations and to accept the multipolar reality.

🔻 It is obvious that we are realigning our foreign policy and foreign trade. We no longer want to remain under the illusion that the West, having proved to be completely unreliable, deceitful and impossible to negotiate with, will conscientiously participate in the globalisation processes or even mechanisms of its own making.

🤝 We have people to work with and to count on.

🔻Speaking of promoting new formats, let’s not forget that six years ago, President of Russia Vladimir Putin spoke about the Eurasian continent and taking advantage of the trends in Asia and the Pacific region of becoming the drivers of global growth. He said we must not lose the natural competitive advantage of the Eurasian countries. Eurasia is a huge continent with the largest population. Its location is so advantageous in terms of geopolitics and the geo-economy that the benefit of joining their efforts is obvious to everybody. We have proposed forming a network for mutually beneficial cooperation with all the regional integration associations across Eurasia (I mentioned the EAEU, the SCO and ASEAN), cooperation through promoting shared approaches rather than imposing artificial frameworks such as Indo-Pacific concepts. We call this process the Greater Eurasian Partnership. In addition to the three organisations I mentioned, this process must be open to all countries in Eurasia without exception, including Europe. But this is the next stage.

🔻 NATO proclaimed a new concept at its Madrid summit in June this year. The organisation’s sphere of responsibility now includes the Indo-Pacific region, as it is called in the West, which implies, in plain English, setting India against China. They make no secret of this. They have even formulated a concept of indivisible security, although not as it was formulated by the OSCE. They say that Euro-Atlantic security is indivisible from Indo-Pacific security. Japan has actively supported this concept. The concept provides justification for NATO’s infiltration in the Indo-Pacific region and the establishment of NATO-centric structures there, which in ordinary terms means the Asia-Pacific region. In the past, NATO claimed to be a defensive alliance, and it was clear that it was defending itself against the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. NATO continued to claim that it was a defensive alliance even after their dissolution, although its lines of defence have moved east five times. It was impossible to make them say who they were defending themselves from.

If the bloc gains a foothold in the Asia-Pacific region, which can happen very quickly, they will say again that it is a defence line and that NATO is a defensive alliance, but the line of defence will be in the South China Sea. NATO-like military blocs such as AUKUS are expanding through the involvement of Japan, South Korea and New Zealand and the creation of “partnerships for maritime domain awareness.” It is an obvious attempt to put distance between ASEAN and China, and to stop their dialogue on the South China Sea, to snatch the initiative and decide the matter without China. They are trying to involve the ASEAN nations that are liable to accept this approach. There are certain fine points. The West regards half of ASEAN nations as promising in terms of detaching them from the 10 nations, disrupting ASEAN’s unity and undermining the structures that have been created in the region around the ASEAN over decades on the basis of consensus and general agreement. I am referring to the ASEAN Regional Forum, the ADMM-Plus and the East Asia Summit, which the 10 ASEAN nations and their eight Dialogue Partners hold every year.

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https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1842506/

✍ On December 13-14, St. Petersburg 🇷🇺 hosts the 13th Asian Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “Russia and Asia in the Emerging International Order”.

At the end of the year, the Valdai Club traditionally organises a meeting dedicated to issues relevant to the Asian region.

Representatives of six partner organisations of the Club from Vietnam, India, Kazakhstan, China, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea, as well as political scientists, economists, military experts from Russia, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore and Sweden arrived at the conference in St. Petersburg, about 40 representatives from 13 countries in total.

❗️Andrey Rudenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, was invited to the conference as a guest of honour.

🔴 #LIVE: 4th Session of the 13th Asian Conference of the #Valdai Discussion Club: "International Connectivity: Changing Existing and Creating New Transportation Logistics and Financial Systems".

https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/international-connectivity-fourth-session/

Pleased to announce that 2nd ASEAN-Russia Dialogue on ICT Security-related issues has been successfully held today!
#ASEANRussia #ASEAN

📢 2nd ASEAN-Russia Dialogue on ICT Security-related issues was held online on 15 December 2022.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Oleg Syromolotov 🇷🇺 and State Secretary of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the Kingdom of Cambodia Khov Makara 🇰🇭 co-chaired the meeting. The delegations of Russia and ASEAN Member States comprised representatives of relevant governmental authorities.

🔹 During the meeting, participants outlined the prospects for further cooperation within specialized international platforms, primarily the UN (Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of ICTs 2021-2025, Ad-Hoc Committee to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on combating the use of ICTs for criminal purposes) and regional mechanisms.  The vectors for building up interagency cooperation in the areas of ensuring international information security, which are of mutual interest, were also discussed.

❗️The meeting highlighted the political will of Russia 🇷🇺 and ASEAN to further develop contacts, demonstrated readiness for a joint search for mutually acceptable solutions to counter emerging challenges and threats in the information sphere.  As a result, an agreement was reached to hold the next meeting of the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue next year. 🤝

💬 Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the United Nations #Nebenzia: Russia will keep promoting the political dialogue and normalization in #Myanmar, oppose attempts to interfere in its internal affairs. We support the willingness of #ASEAN to facilitate settlement in & around the country

💬 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: A monument to Soviet pilots who perished during the "undeclared war" in Indochina was unveiled in Laos

In contrast to acts of vandalism & barbaric demolition of such monuments in EU countries, our Laotian friends 🇱🇦 continue to cherish the memory of our common past.