Russian Mission to ASEAN

💬 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: Russia’s strategic partnership with #ASEAN is on the rise: ✅ Expert consultations on digitisation have launched; ✅ Work of joint anti-terrorism bodies is intensifying; ✅ Cultural and educational events are being held.

💬#Zakharova: On January 1, Russia assumed #BRICS chairmanship. 👉 One of the most important objectives is to ensure the integration of new members into the BRICS mechanisms without compromising their effectiveness.

🤝 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hold a meeting with Secretary-General of ASEAN Dr. Kao Kim Hourn. 🪆 Following a good tradition, Sergey Lavrov presented the SG with a portrait matryoshka. 📍Jakarta, July 12 #RussiaASEAN 📹 by Maria #Zakharova

🇷🇺🇱🇦 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Laos Saleumxay Kommasith. 📍 Jakarta, July 12 #RussiaLaos 📹 by Maria #Zakharova

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on Russia's contribution to strengthening humanitarian cooperation in public health 💬 Russia is strengthening humanitarian cooperation in sanitary and epidemiological well-being, infection prevention and control with dozens of countries in Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Southeast Asia. We provide our partners with logistic, scientific and practical assistance in preventing and responding to epidemics, we help train personnel in partner countries, and we develop and implement joint scientific research programmes. We trained specialists from #ASEAN countries in modern methods of infectious diseases diagnosis and prevention in Vladivostok. About 100 ASEAN specialists attended the courses in March, May and November. We continue to work actively with our colleagues to combat coronavirus. Let me remind you that Sputnik V was the world's first registered vaccine against the coronavirus. Our vaccine has been approved in more than 70 countries worldwide. We continue to work towards eradicating this pandemic. Russia has hosted regular conferences on COVID-19 and on combating antibiotic resistance, each attended by over 200 participants from dozens of countries, including the EAEU, the CIS, Asia, Africa and Latin America. 🔗 Read in full 👇 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1846048/

💬 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova: A monument to Soviet pilots who perished during the "undeclared war" in Indochina was unveiled in Laos In contrast to acts of vandalism & barbaric demolition of such monuments in EU countries, our Laotian friends 🇱🇦 continue to cherish the memory of our common past.