Việt Nam calls for deeper, more practical ASEAN-Russia strategic partnership
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Lê Hoài Trung has urged ASEAN and Russia to strengthen their strategic partnership through increased economic cooperation and technological collaboration. The proposal aims to reach $45 billion in trade by 2035 and expand ties in energy and digital security.
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This highlights the ongoing diplomatic efforts to maintain and deepen economic and security ties between Southeast Asian nations and Russia amidst a complex global geopolitical environment.
MANILA — Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Lê Hoài Trung has called on ASEAN and Russia to achieve breakthroughs in economic cooperation, expand collaboration in emerging sectors and strengthen people-to-people connections to translate commitments of both sides' leaders into tangible outcomes.
Addressing the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference with Russia held on Wednesday as part of the 59th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM-59) and related meetings in the Philippines, Trung described the ASEAN–Russia Commemorative Summit marking 35 years of dialogue relations held in Kazan, Russia, in June as an important milestone that reaffirmed the strategic value of ASEAN–Russia relations and injected fresh momentum into bilateral cooperation.
To turn leaders' vision into concrete results, he urged both sides to make breakthroughs in economic cooperation and to raise two-way trade to US$45 billion by 2035.
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