📅 The 20th Meeting of the ASEAN-Russia Joint Cooperation Committee (ARJCC) took place via videoconference on 29 March 2022.
Representatives of the #ASEAN Secretariat and a number of Russian line agencies took part in the meeting.
The #ARJCC meeting was focused on the implementation of the decisions of the 4th ASEAN-Russia Summit in October 2021 and the Comprehensive Plan of Action to Implement ASEAN and the Russian Federation Strategic Partnership (2021-2025).
💬 The participants discussed the ways to deepen cooperation on political and security issues, disaster management, #ICT security, infectious diseases, tourism and in many other areas. Both Sides highlighted the successful conducting of the first ASEAN-Russia Naval Exercise in December 2021 and expressed readiness to promote further the Consultations of High Representatives Responsible for Security Issues and the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue on ICT security-related issues.
📚 A special significance was attached to the launch of the joint Year of Scientific and Technological Cooperation on 14 February 2022 that is expected to give a greater impetus to the ASEAN-Russia #cooperation in science and innovations. Its extensive programme includes conferences, workshops, study tours, business dialogues on such topics like education, energy, medicine, smart cities, molecular technologies and nuclear applications, digitalization, climate change, etc.
ASEAN commended the practical results of the Pandemic Prevention Training Courses for specialists from the ASEAN Member States started in Vladivostok in 2019. Another round of seminars took place in March 2022. The Meeting took stock of interim outcomes of the number of projects on sustainable agriculture. The Meeting agreed on increasing mutually beneficial project activities. The Russian participants made presentations on new joint projects covering environment and post-pandemic economic recovery. #Myanmar and the #Philippines briefed on their initiatives in the field of science and technologies. The facilitation of the Singaporean project on use of social media to promote tourism in Russia and ASEAN was also discussed.
As a follow-up to the ministerial meeting on tourism the ARJCC underlined the importance of promoting people-to-people contact beneficial to the advancement of the ASEAN-Russia cooperation. In particular the ASEAN-Russian Federation Tourism Cooperation Work Plan 2022-2024 will contribute to it. The Meeting determined modalities of collaboration between Higher Education Institutions in ASEAN and Russia. In this regard, the Meeting highly appreciated the activities of the ASEAN Center in MGIMO University aimed at deepening socio-cultural and scientific cooperation between ASEAN Member States and Russia.
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Representatives of the #ASEAN Secretariat and a number of Russian line agencies took part in the meeting.
The #ARJCC meeting was focused on the implementation of the decisions of the 4th ASEAN-Russia Summit in October 2021 and the Comprehensive Plan of Action to Implement ASEAN and the Russian Federation Strategic Partnership (2021-2025).
💬 The participants discussed the ways to deepen cooperation on political and security issues, disaster management, #ICT security, infectious diseases, tourism and in many other areas. Both Sides highlighted the successful conducting of the first ASEAN-Russia Naval Exercise in December 2021 and expressed readiness to promote further the Consultations of High Representatives Responsible for Security Issues and the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue on ICT security-related issues.
📚 A special significance was attached to the launch of the joint Year of Scientific and Technological Cooperation on 14 February 2022 that is expected to give a greater impetus to the ASEAN-Russia #cooperation in science and innovations. Its extensive programme includes conferences, workshops, study tours, business dialogues on such topics like education, energy, medicine, smart cities, molecular technologies and nuclear applications, digitalization, climate change, etc.
ASEAN commended the practical results of the Pandemic Prevention Training Courses for specialists from the ASEAN Member States started in Vladivostok in 2019. Another round of seminars took place in March 2022. The Meeting took stock of interim outcomes of the number of projects on sustainable agriculture. The Meeting agreed on increasing mutually beneficial project activities. The Russian participants made presentations on new joint projects covering environment and post-pandemic economic recovery. #Myanmar and the #Philippines briefed on their initiatives in the field of science and technologies. The facilitation of the Singaporean project on use of social media to promote tourism in Russia and ASEAN was also discussed.
As a follow-up to the ministerial meeting on tourism the ARJCC underlined the importance of promoting people-to-people contact beneficial to the advancement of the ASEAN-Russia cooperation. In particular the ASEAN-Russian Federation Tourism Cooperation Work Plan 2022-2024 will contribute to it. The Meeting determined modalities of collaboration between Higher Education Institutions in ASEAN and Russia. In this regard, the Meeting highly appreciated the activities of the ASEAN Center in MGIMO University aimed at deepening socio-cultural and scientific cooperation between ASEAN Member States and Russia.
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1807974/