🗓 On November 21, Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 and the Head of Office #UNOCHA Indonesia and ASEAN Liaison Office Ms. Thandie Mwape exchanged views on cooperation with the countries of the region in the sphere of disaster management.

🇷🇺🇵🇭 Russia-Philippines Political Consultations

26 November 2024

🔹 On November 26, 2024, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko held political consultations with Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines Maria-Theresa Lazaro in Manila.

🔹 A thorough exchange of views took place on topical issues of the bilateral, regional, and global agenda. Both sides discussed the state and perspectives of development of the Russian-Philippine political dialogue, cooperation in trade, economic and humanitarian spheres. Special attention was paid to interaction within the UN and multilateral venues of the Asia-Pacific region, including within the format of the Russia-ASEAN Dialogue.

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📰 Article by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Y.Rudenko in the Philippine newspaper “Business Mirror” (25 November 2024)

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Key points:

💬 Since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1976, Russian-Philippine friendship has gone through a test of endurance, including changes in the domestic and international political and economic spheres following the collapse of the USSR.

💬 Amid the ongoing global transformation associated with the changing balance of power in the international arena, primarily due to the increasing role of the Global South and Eastern countries, the Philippines remains an important and promising partner of Russia in the Asia-Pacific region.

💬 We therefore appreciate the constructive attitude of the present administration, headed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, which demonstrates the continuity of the policy of maintaining friendly relations with our country.

💬 Recent years have seen an active development of interregional contacts. The city of Cebu maintains twinning relations with Vladimir, in 2022 an agreement on cooperation with Vladivostok was signed. In 2024 the province of Cebu concluded an agreement on cooperation in trade and economy, science and technology, and the humanitarian area with St. Petersburg. Moscow has cooperation programs in place with Manila and Cebu.

💬 Russia opposes the militarization of the region and the "creeping expansion" of NATO into Southeast Asia. Such narrow-bloc organizations as the Indo-Pacific Four (Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand), the AUKUS military alliance with a nuclear component (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia) are fully involved in this scenario. We note attempts to pull other ASEAN countries into similar narrow-bloc entities, with the aim of forming new "trios" and "quartets".

💬 Russian-Philippine cooperation has great potential for further successful development and translation into mutually beneficial projects.

🎥 World of Opportunities: Russia — ASEAN business forum has started in Malaysia. It is the first large-scale event organized under the Roscongress International brand.

📌 The business program and broadcasts of the sessions are available on the official website.

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