Russian Mission to ASEAN

We congratulate our Indonesian partners and friends on commemorating the Birthday of Pancasila 🇮🇩!

Russian Mission was happy to take part in a friendly chess game in #ASEAN Headquarters. ♟️

📢❗️ Dear friends! The application campaign for the second enrollment of the Master Degree Programme "Political Economy of the #ASEAN-Russia Strategic Partnership", designed by @aseancentremgimo and MGIMO is still open. Get a chance to become a part of our friendly family! 🔸️Students will have an opportunity to study regional and global processes, macroeconomics, contemporary international economy, ASEAN-Russia relations, as well as different aspects of international relations, regional integration, business cultures, and digital economy with a special emphasis on Russia and ASEAN. ☝️There is no similar educational program in any other Russian or ASEAN University. 🔸️The program provides students with the necessary skills for employment in government agencies, international organizations, business analytics, and consulting. 🔸️Internships in leading Russian companies and state agencies, international organizations and NGOs, media companies, think tanks, universities and research centers. 🎓We cordially invite the youth from the #ASEAN Member States to apply for the program and study at one of the top universities in Russia 🇷🇺. 🗓 Application deadline is July 20, 2024. For further details check the information below 👇 🔗https://study-asean.mgimo.ru/ or feel free to contact 📧[email protected]

❗️🥇 Dear friends! Wanted to remind that you still have 1 month to submit your essay and win the main prize in the competition “Integration Experience of ASEAN for the EEU and the EEU Experience for ASEAN”, organized by the ASEAN Centre in MGIMO, Eurasian Economic Commission (#EEC) and the ASEAN Moscow Committee. 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓Eligible participants are students and young professionals from Russia and #ASEAN (up to 35 years) interested in history and current state of integration in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and ASEAN, promising avenues of the EEU-ASEAN cooperation, issues of the EEU and ASEAN practical functioning and interregional connectivity. 🔗 To learn more about essay requirements please follow the link. ⏰️ The deadline for essay submission - June 30, 2024. 🌐 The working language - English. 🏆Author of the best essay from an ASEAN Member State will be awarded with a trip to Moscow 🇷🇺, the author of the essay from Russia will get a chance to travel to Jakarta 🇮🇩. @aseancentremgimo

🗓 On May 23-24, Moscow hosted the 3rd ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF) Workshop on Countering the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes, co-chaired by Russia 🇷🇺, Thailand 🇹🇭 and China 🇨🇳. 🔹️The agenda of the workshop covered such issues as criminalization and crime prevention, international cooperation on countering the use of #ICTs for criminal, terrorist and extremist purposes, as well as international legal aspects of countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes and the practice of national and cross-border investigations. 🔹️The participants shared their approaches to the topical issues related to countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes. The discussion highlighted the need to enhance practical cooperation in this field and to early elaborate under the UN auspices the comprehensive international convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.

Happy Vesak Day to our Buddhist friends across #ASEAN! 🙏 May this special day inspire peace, happiness and harmony.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the SCO Foreign Ministers Council meeting (Astana, May 21, 2024) Key talking points: ▪️ At a group meeting of the heads of delegations with President of Kazakhstan and during the Ministerial Council meeting, we expressed our deepest condolences and solidarity with the Iranian people, as well as confidence that Tehran will continue its foreign policy, including with regard to its active participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. • The #SCO remains one of the supporting pillars of the multipolar world order. It is well positioned to become a driving force behind transforming Eurasia into a single continental space of peace, stability, mutual trust and progress. • Security can be reliably ensured only by the Eurasian countries themselves, without the intervention of extra-regional forces. We observe such attempts on the part of the United States, the European Union and NATO, which strive to assume responsibility for everything that happens in the region. • We are all aware of the importance of intensifying the work of the SCO, considering its weight and role in Eurasia, and its partners, including the OSCE, the CIS, the EAEU, and ASEAN. • Developing common approaches to ensuring Eurasian security and cooperation by the countries of this continent is a crucial goal. We underscored that the SCO could well catalyse these processes with the involvement of other partners in the region. • The SCO has two observers and 14 dialogue partners. Recently, Laos and Algeria have applied for partner status. We discussed improving the efficiency of interaction with these countries within the SCO Plus format. 🇧🇾 Starting from the July summit, Belarus will become a full-fledged SCO member. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will take part in all events of the Astana summit without exception. The Belarusian minister attended our discussion. 🇲🇳 Mongolia is the obvious next candidate for SCO membership. Read in full

🎙 Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov’s interview with PIR Center for Policy Studies (May 22, 2024) Key points: 💬 The interest towards #BRICS has been steadily growing against the backdrop of large-scale geopolitical challenges and dramatic changes taking place in the world today. • BRICS is seen as one of the pillars of a new, more equitable world order, which is designed to give all countries equal opportunities, to free the states of the Global South and Global East from the role of obedient suppliers of cheap labor and raw materials that the West imposes on them, and to consolidate the right of all nations for preserving their identity, self-determination, independent domestic and foreign policy, and protection of traditional values. Russia and other BRICS countries fully share this stance and are in favor of an honest partnership that denies any exceptionalism. • BRICS is an innovative format of interstate cooperation, bringing together different cultures and civilizations, countries with different economic and political systems <...>. Our common goal is a firm commitment to pursuing an independent domestic and foreign policy, defending sovereignty and our national interests. • As part of Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship in 2024, we intend to continue developing strategic partnership on the basis of consensus and continuity, and work to enhance its role in world affairs. It's also reflected by the motto of the Russian BRICS Year “Strengthening Multilateralism for Equitable Global Development and Security”. • The BRICS Summit in October 2024, will be the culmination of the Russian year in BRICS. We intend to continue the tradition of organizing on the sidelines meetings with developing countries. That cooperation within the BRICS framework and its mechanisms of interaction with like-minded nations will enable the voice of the Global South to sound louder and clearer in the international arena, as well as to defend our national interests and the right to choose our own path of development. Read in full #BRICS2024

🗓 On May 20-21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in the Foreign Ministers Council meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member-countries. The participants focused on the organisation’s activities in the context of preparations for the meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council meeting in Astana on July 3-4. They also discussed draft documents to be presented for the leaders’ consideration. The participants will reflect their coordinated approaches to the SCO’s further development and current global and regional issues in the Astana Declaration. The admission of Belarus will be an important step towards strengthening the #SCO. The Ministers endorsed the relevant draft decisions of the Heads of State Council. They also coordinated proposals of the SCO Foreign Ministers Council on comprehensive improvement of the organisation’s activities in the context of current geopolitical realities. They adopted draft leadership statements and conceptual documents as a foundation for promoting cooperation in energy, transport, logistics and environmental protection. During a detailed exchange of views on key regional and international issues, the Ministers discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip and the Middle East as a whole, and, in part, settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They paid special attention to the SCO’s efforts to facilitate stabilization in Afghanistan, considering the importance of this factor for the security of the SCO space. 🤝 FM Lavrov also had a number of bilateral meetings.

⭐️ Precious memorable moments and impressions of our #ASEAN and South Asia friends participating in the RT Academy's first international online course for journalists. 🟩 Students of RT Academy had the opportunity to learn all stages of TV news production - from pitching a story to newsgathering, reporting and presenting, as well as to get acquainted with the work of newsroom editors, presenters and camera persons. 🟩 Launched on 1️⃣ April, 2024, RT English-language, international online educational project for journalists was attended by students from all over the Asia-Pacific. More than 150 students represented ASEAN.