At the seminar (Photo: VNA)Addressing the two-day event, ICCA Director Kirill VladimirovichBabaev held that studying modern political, economic, cultural and socialpolicy processes in East Asian countries, as well as cooperation among them andbetween the countries and Moscow is important to Russia in the current context.
He said that the conference provides a chance for experts fromRussia and Asia-Pacific countries to exchange viewpoints on importantinternational issues, thus promoting their cooperation.
For his part, Nikolai Stanislavovich Nozdrev, Director ofthe Third Department of Asia under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russiasaid that the research results of the experts are a source of preference forRussia’s external policy making process.
Speaking with Vietnam News Agency (VNA) correspondents in Moscow on thesidelines of the conference, head of the ICCA Centre for the Study of Vietnamand ASEAN Vladimir Moiseevich Mazyrin reiterated that Asia-Pacific is at the heart of the foreign policy ofthe Russia.
Meanwhile, Viktorovich Bredikhin, a ICCA expert affirmed that Vietnam is Russia’sleading important partner among ASEAN countries, especially amid the currentdifficult geopolitical situation.
Vietnam is the only ASEAN member country to share acomprehensive strategic partnership with Russia, and the first one to sign afree trade agreement with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the expert noted.
He held that in this context, Moscow should show a clearerrole in settling regional issues, including the East Sea matters, on the basisof strengthening the enforcement of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS) 1982.
Bredikhin proposed a Russia-China-Vietnam tripartitecooperation initiative in the region in areas of fisheries, scientificresearch, and oil and gas exploration and exploitation.
Participants at the event hailed the rising role of ASEAN interms of politics, economy, and science and technology in the world, affirming thatRussia should pay greater attention to promoting effective and substantialpartnership with its traditional partners in the region./.
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