🔹During the exchange of views on key issues on the international and regional agenda, the Russian side emphasized its inalterable approach to strengthening the multipolar world order, establishing positive practice-oriented cooperation between the countries of the Asia-Pacific region aimed at countering the evolving threats to its stable and progressive development, including amid the global economic crisis provoked by the West with severe consequences in the food and energy sectors.
⚡️The risks related to the "globalization" of #NATO and the Western thread on the militarization of the Asia-Pacific region, including through the formation of a military-technological infrastructure on the AUKUS platform (US-UK-Australia), with its conjugation with the Euro-Atlantic power potential were particularly emphasized. The attention of the partners from #ASEAN was drawn to the false bottom of the "Indo-Pacific" projects starting from the block platforms, that base their activities not on the broadest possible cooperation, but on the objectives of deterrence and counteraction.
🤝Russia expressed support for ASEAN's efforts to preserve the unity of the organization and maintain a multipolar, sustainable architecture of interstate relations in the Asia-Pacific region, based on the principles of mutual respect and equality, as well as maintaining a balance of interests of all participants of the regional process.
ASEAN-organized summit events had taken steps to further strengthen relations between the Association and other institutions of the Eurasian space with a positive agenda and in the interests of building broad cross-platform cooperation. There were contacts between ASEAN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming delivered the address at the opening of the #EAS plenary session.
🔹The Russian side spoke in favor of building up non-politicized applied cooperation within the East Asia Summit framework, including in the context of harmonization of the new mid-term EAS Plan of Actions – a roadmap of its activities for 2023-2027.
🇷🇺Russia has put forward the idea of launching a collective response mechanism to pandemic threats on the EAS platform. It could have become a good practical outcome of longstanding efforts to promote cooperation in this area, with its key aspects reflected in the EAS relevant top-level statement, adopted in 2020 following our country’s proposal.
We drew the partners’ attention to the need to fulfill the objectives, set in the Russia-initiated 2021 Leaders’ Statement on developing cooperation in tourism. The Russian side noted the importance of an early organization of a meeting of the heads of relevant authorities of the EAS States Parties, aimed to launch the programs of targeted interaction to stimulate the post-pandemic economic recovery of the countries of the region.
🔸The Russian proposals to establish cooperation among the volunteer organizations to deepen the region-wide humanitarian interconnectedness received ASEAN’s active support.
⚡️The risks related to the "globalization" of #NATO and the Western thread on the militarization of the Asia-Pacific region, including through the formation of a military-technological infrastructure on the AUKUS platform (US-UK-Australia), with its conjugation with the Euro-Atlantic power potential were particularly emphasized. The attention of the partners from #ASEAN was drawn to the false bottom of the "Indo-Pacific" projects starting from the block platforms, that base their activities not on the broadest possible cooperation, but on the objectives of deterrence and counteraction.
🤝Russia expressed support for ASEAN's efforts to preserve the unity of the organization and maintain a multipolar, sustainable architecture of interstate relations in the Asia-Pacific region, based on the principles of mutual respect and equality, as well as maintaining a balance of interests of all participants of the regional process.
ASEAN-organized summit events had taken steps to further strengthen relations between the Association and other institutions of the Eurasian space with a positive agenda and in the interests of building broad cross-platform cooperation. There were contacts between ASEAN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming delivered the address at the opening of the #EAS plenary session.
🔹The Russian side spoke in favor of building up non-politicized applied cooperation within the East Asia Summit framework, including in the context of harmonization of the new mid-term EAS Plan of Actions – a roadmap of its activities for 2023-2027.
🇷🇺Russia has put forward the idea of launching a collective response mechanism to pandemic threats on the EAS platform. It could have become a good practical outcome of longstanding efforts to promote cooperation in this area, with its key aspects reflected in the EAS relevant top-level statement, adopted in 2020 following our country’s proposal.
We drew the partners’ attention to the need to fulfill the objectives, set in the Russia-initiated 2021 Leaders’ Statement on developing cooperation in tourism. The Russian side noted the importance of an early organization of a meeting of the heads of relevant authorities of the EAS States Parties, aimed to launch the programs of targeted interaction to stimulate the post-pandemic economic recovery of the countries of the region.
🔸The Russian proposals to establish cooperation among the volunteer organizations to deepen the region-wide humanitarian interconnectedness received ASEAN’s active support.
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📢 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
❗️Russia pays special attention to this important platform for open discussion on regional security policies and development cooperation initiatives.
#EAS
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🗓 On July 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Saleumxay Kommasith on the sidelines of the 13th East Asia Summit (#EAS) Foreign Ministers Meeting.
The Ministers discussed the priority aspects of strengthening Russia-Laos strategic partnership, with a focus on the further development of political dialogue, the build-up of trade and investment cooperation and the expansion of cultural and educational exchanges.
🤝 Their exchange of views on international issues confirmed the two countries’ close stands on the key aspects of the global and regional agendas. They expressed mutual resolve to promote the #RussiaASEAN dialogue partnership in the context of preparations for the 2024 #ASEAN Chairmanship by Laos.
#RussiaLaos
The Ministers discussed the priority aspects of strengthening Russia-Laos strategic partnership, with a focus on the further development of political dialogue, the build-up of trade and investment cooperation and the expansion of cultural and educational exchanges.
🤝 Their exchange of views on international issues confirmed the two countries’ close stands on the key aspects of the global and regional agendas. They expressed mutual resolve to promote the #RussiaASEAN dialogue partnership in the context of preparations for the 2024 #ASEAN Chairmanship by Laos.
#RussiaLaos
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🗓 Every year on August 8, the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) mark ASEAN Day. This date was approved by the ASEAN Standing Committee at its annual meeting in May 2005.
🌏 ASEAN was founded in Bangkok on August 8, 1967, by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, which signed the so-called Bangkok Declaration. Later, this regional organisation was joined by Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos and Myanmar (1997), and Cambodia (1999).
ASEAN is one of the most successful regional organisations. It has a broad network of various intergovernmental associations involving Russia and other leading world powers: the East Asia Summit (#EAS), ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF), and ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus (#ADMMPlus).
☝️ Promoting ties with ASEAN is Russia’s key foreign policy priority in Asia. The Russian Permanent Mission to ASEAN has been based in Jakarta since 2017. In 2018, Russia-ASEAN relations reached the level of strategic partnership, resulting in closer coordination on current global and regional issues with the ten member countries at leading multilateral venues, including the UN.
🤝 On July 12-14, 2023, Sergey Lavrov attended foreign ministers’ meetings in Jakarta, held in the Russia-ASEAN, EAS, and ARF formats.
💬 President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-ASEAN Summit (October 28, 2021): "Strengthening ties with ASEAN and its member states has always been and remains one of Russia's foreign policy priorities. <...> I would like to point out that the positions of Russia and the ASEAN states on key global and regional matters are similar in many respects. Most importantly, we all support the expansion of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the vast Asia-Pacific space."
#RussiaASEAN
🌏 ASEAN was founded in Bangkok on August 8, 1967, by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, which signed the so-called Bangkok Declaration. Later, this regional organisation was joined by Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos and Myanmar (1997), and Cambodia (1999).
ASEAN is one of the most successful regional organisations. It has a broad network of various intergovernmental associations involving Russia and other leading world powers: the East Asia Summit (#EAS), ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF), and ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus (#ADMMPlus).
☝️ Promoting ties with ASEAN is Russia’s key foreign policy priority in Asia. The Russian Permanent Mission to ASEAN has been based in Jakarta since 2017. In 2018, Russia-ASEAN relations reached the level of strategic partnership, resulting in closer coordination on current global and regional issues with the ten member countries at leading multilateral venues, including the UN.
🤝 On July 12-14, 2023, Sergey Lavrov attended foreign ministers’ meetings in Jakarta, held in the Russia-ASEAN, EAS, and ARF formats.
💬 President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-ASEAN Summit (October 28, 2021): "Strengthening ties with ASEAN and its member states has always been and remains one of Russia's foreign policy priorities. <...> I would like to point out that the positions of Russia and the ASEAN states on key global and regional matters are similar in many respects. Most importantly, we all support the expansion of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the vast Asia-Pacific space."
#RussiaASEAN
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📅 On September 7, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov attended the 18th East Asia Summit (#EAS) held in Jakarta.
During the exchange of views on the main issues on the Asia-Pacific agenda, the Minister informed his partners on Russia’s consistent approach to strengthening the architecture of equal and indivisible security in the region and ensuring its high development pace. He highlighted the importance of maintaining the mechanisms of multilateral cooperation within the framework of #ASEAN coordinates in the spirit of a constructive non-politicised dialogue and creative cooperation based on the principles of consensus, mutual respect and a balance of interests.
☝️ Sergey Lavrov pointed out the risks of militarisation in East Asia in light of NATO’s efforts to install its forces and infrastructure in the region based on the West-created bloc mechanisms for network deterrence and the promotion of #AUKUS confrontational project, which provides for the deployment of a military strategic complex with a nuclear component in the region.
He emphasised the importance of building up practical effort within the EAS framework, including the implementation of the Russian initiatives on responding to epidemic threats, developing the tourism industry, and establishing sustainable ties between volunteer organisations in the Asia-Pacific region.
🤝 The Minister reaffirmed Russia’s resolve to create a solid framework of interstate cooperation in the region through the alignment of the capabilities of multilateral mechanisms that are working in the spirit of positive co-development, including the strengthening of constructive interaction between ASEAN, #SCO and #EAEU.
During the exchange of views on the main issues on the Asia-Pacific agenda, the Minister informed his partners on Russia’s consistent approach to strengthening the architecture of equal and indivisible security in the region and ensuring its high development pace. He highlighted the importance of maintaining the mechanisms of multilateral cooperation within the framework of #ASEAN coordinates in the spirit of a constructive non-politicised dialogue and creative cooperation based on the principles of consensus, mutual respect and a balance of interests.
☝️ Sergey Lavrov pointed out the risks of militarisation in East Asia in light of NATO’s efforts to install its forces and infrastructure in the region based on the West-created bloc mechanisms for network deterrence and the promotion of #AUKUS confrontational project, which provides for the deployment of a military strategic complex with a nuclear component in the region.
He emphasised the importance of building up practical effort within the EAS framework, including the implementation of the Russian initiatives on responding to epidemic threats, developing the tourism industry, and establishing sustainable ties between volunteer organisations in the Asia-Pacific region.
🤝 The Minister reaffirmed Russia’s resolve to create a solid framework of interstate cooperation in the region through the alignment of the capabilities of multilateral mechanisms that are working in the spirit of positive co-development, including the strengthening of constructive interaction between ASEAN, #SCO and #EAEU.
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🗓 On June 7-8, Russia's Alternate SOM Leader, Director-General of the Department of Asian and Pacific Cooperation of the Russian MFA Mr. Alexey Ovchinnikov 🇷🇺participated in the East Asia Summit Senior Officials' Meeting (#EAS SOM) and ASEAN Regional Forum Senior Officials' Meeting (#ARF SOM) in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹️Senior officials discussed issues related to preparation for the EAS Summit and EAS and ARF Foreign Ministers' Meetings later this year.
🇷🇺 The Russian Side emphasized the importance of continuing joint efforts in key areas of cooperation within the ARF and the EAS including implementation of the leaders' decisions on launching Regional Mechanism of Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control as well as establishing interaction among the EAS Participating States on tourism.
🔹️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 of high conflict potential 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 such as EAS, ARF and ADMM-Plus.
#EAS #ARF
🔹️Senior officials discussed issues related to preparation for the EAS Summit and EAS and ARF Foreign Ministers' Meetings later this year.
🇷🇺 The Russian Side emphasized the importance of continuing joint efforts in key areas of cooperation within the ARF and the EAS including implementation of the leaders' decisions on launching Regional Mechanism of Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control as well as establishing interaction among the EAS Participating States on tourism.
🔹️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 of high conflict potential 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 such as EAS, ARF and ADMM-Plus.
#EAS #ARF
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🗓 Every year on August 8, the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (#ASEAN) mark ASEAN Day. This date was approved by the ASEAN Standing Committee at its annual meeting in May 2005.
🌏 ASEAN was founded in Bangkok on August 8, 1967, by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, which signed the so-called Bangkok Declaration. Later, this regional organisation was joined by Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos and Myanmar (1997), and Cambodia (1999).
ASEAN is one of the most successful regional organisations. It has a broad network of various intergovernmental associations involving Russia and other leading world powers: the East Asia Summit (#EAS), ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF), and ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus (#ADMMPlus).
☝️ Promoting ties with ASEAN is Russia’s key foreign policy priority in Asia. The Russian Permanent Mission to ASEAN has been based in Jakarta since 2017. In 2018, Russia-ASEAN relations reached the level of strategic partnership, resulting in closer coordination on current global and regional issues with the ten member countries at leading multilateral venues, including the UN.
🤝 On July 26 and 27, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended annual ministerial events held by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Vientiane. He took part in Foreign Ministers’ meetings in the Russia-ASEAN format, as well as within the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum.
💬 President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-ASEAN Summit (October 28, 2021): "Strengthening ties with ASEAN and its member states has always been and remains one of Russia's foreign policy priorities. <...> I would like to point out that the positions of Russia and the ASEAN states on key global and regional matters are similar in many respects. Most importantly, we all support the expansion of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the vast Asia-Pacific space."
#RussiaASEAN
🌏 ASEAN was founded in Bangkok on August 8, 1967, by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, which signed the so-called Bangkok Declaration. Later, this regional organisation was joined by Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos and Myanmar (1997), and Cambodia (1999).
ASEAN is one of the most successful regional organisations. It has a broad network of various intergovernmental associations involving Russia and other leading world powers: the East Asia Summit (#EAS), ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF), and ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus (#ADMMPlus).
☝️ Promoting ties with ASEAN is Russia’s key foreign policy priority in Asia. The Russian Permanent Mission to ASEAN has been based in Jakarta since 2017. In 2018, Russia-ASEAN relations reached the level of strategic partnership, resulting in closer coordination on current global and regional issues with the ten member countries at leading multilateral venues, including the UN.
🤝 On July 26 and 27, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended annual ministerial events held by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Vientiane. He took part in Foreign Ministers’ meetings in the Russia-ASEAN format, as well as within the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum.
💬 President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-ASEAN Summit (October 28, 2021): "Strengthening ties with ASEAN and its member states has always been and remains one of Russia's foreign policy priorities. <...> I would like to point out that the positions of Russia and the ASEAN states on key global and regional matters are similar in many respects. Most importantly, we all support the expansion of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the vast Asia-Pacific space."
#RussiaASEAN
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🛬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in Vientiane (Laos) to take part in the 19th East Asia Summit
🌏 #EAS
🌏 #EAS
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🇷🇺 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the 19th East Asia Summit (#EAS)
📍 Vientiane, October 11, 2024
📍 Vientiane, October 11, 2024
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the 19th East Asia Summit (#EAS)
📍 Vientiane, October 11, 2024
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We have completed our meetings as part of the 19th East Asia Summit. President of Russia Vladimir Putin instructed me to represent him at this event.
The discussions evidenced that our Western colleagues, who are #ASEAN partners <…> have been seeking to undermine the multilateral economic and security architecture which has evolved over decades with ASEAN at its core and which has proven its relevance and effectiveness.
However, it is obvious today that the United States and its allies decided to draw the Asia-Pacific Region into NATO’s sphere of interests by creating all these narrow and exclusive US-led military and political associations. <...>
☝️ We have highlighted that this Western policy may lead to the region’s militarisation, while also threatening stability and sustainable development in the Asian part of our shared continent.
Russia reaffirmed its unwavering support for ASEAN countries in their efforts to preserve peace and ensure equal cooperation with all ASEAN partners.
<...>
👉 Instead of using the events held as part of the East Asia Summit for pursuing vested political interests, Russia opted for promoting initiatives in several domains, including pandemic response, people-to-people contacts, including tourism, and supporting volunteering. We offer practical avenues for working together which can benefit all the participants and advocate equal and mutually beneficial cooperation. <...>
The Association hosted the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as its guest at the East Asia Summit for the third time. He put forward a proposal to promote closer contacts between the SCO and ASEAN in various spheres that are relevant for the countries involved. <...>
We welcomed the fact that several ASEAN countries want to forge closer ties with #BRICS. Today, this structure acts as one of the cornerstones of a multipolar world order. In just a few days, Kazan will be hosting the BRICS Summit, which will be a major international event. Several ASEAN countries were invited to attend it, and they accepted these invitations.
Excerpts from responses to media questions. Key talking points:
• The final declaration has not been adopted because of the persistent attempts by the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to turn it into a purely political statement, contrary to the decades-long practice of East Asia summits, which boils down to preventing the saturation of declarations with confrontational geopolitical narratives.
• When the United States and its allies unanimously reaffirmed their commitment to ASEAN’s central role in facilitating cooperation in the region today, they were being dishonest. Everything they do is aimed at containing Russia and China. Everything that has been accomplished in the ASEAN-centric format over decades is being sacrificed to this goal now. That format was convenient for everyone and incorporated the interests of each and every stakeholder. So, the destructive nature of Washington’s actions in the region is obvious.
• We are seriously concerned about re-militarisation of Japan. Having forgotten the lessons of WWII, the Japanese authorities have stated increasing defence spending and augmenting its basic doctrines with a pre-emptive strike capability.
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📍 Vientiane, October 11, 2024
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We have completed our meetings as part of the 19th East Asia Summit. President of Russia Vladimir Putin instructed me to represent him at this event.
The discussions evidenced that our Western colleagues, who are #ASEAN partners <…> have been seeking to undermine the multilateral economic and security architecture which has evolved over decades with ASEAN at its core and which has proven its relevance and effectiveness.
However, it is obvious today that the United States and its allies decided to draw the Asia-Pacific Region into NATO’s sphere of interests by creating all these narrow and exclusive US-led military and political associations. <...>
☝️ We have highlighted that this Western policy may lead to the region’s militarisation, while also threatening stability and sustainable development in the Asian part of our shared continent.
Russia reaffirmed its unwavering support for ASEAN countries in their efforts to preserve peace and ensure equal cooperation with all ASEAN partners.
<...>
👉 Instead of using the events held as part of the East Asia Summit for pursuing vested political interests, Russia opted for promoting initiatives in several domains, including pandemic response, people-to-people contacts, including tourism, and supporting volunteering. We offer practical avenues for working together which can benefit all the participants and advocate equal and mutually beneficial cooperation. <...>
The Association hosted the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as its guest at the East Asia Summit for the third time. He put forward a proposal to promote closer contacts between the SCO and ASEAN in various spheres that are relevant for the countries involved. <...>
We welcomed the fact that several ASEAN countries want to forge closer ties with #BRICS. Today, this structure acts as one of the cornerstones of a multipolar world order. In just a few days, Kazan will be hosting the BRICS Summit, which will be a major international event. Several ASEAN countries were invited to attend it, and they accepted these invitations.
Excerpts from responses to media questions. Key talking points:
• The final declaration has not been adopted because of the persistent attempts by the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to turn it into a purely political statement, contrary to the decades-long practice of East Asia summits, which boils down to preventing the saturation of declarations with confrontational geopolitical narratives.
• When the United States and its allies unanimously reaffirmed their commitment to ASEAN’s central role in facilitating cooperation in the region today, they were being dishonest. Everything they do is aimed at containing Russia and China. Everything that has been accomplished in the ASEAN-centric format over decades is being sacrificed to this goal now. That format was convenient for everyone and incorporated the interests of each and every stakeholder. So, the destructive nature of Washington’s actions in the region is obvious.
• We are seriously concerned about re-militarisation of Japan. Having forgotten the lessons of WWII, the Japanese authorities have stated increasing defence spending and augmenting its basic doctrines with a pre-emptive strike capability.
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