... by Song Young-gil, Special Presidential Envoy of Republic of Korea. Korean delegation also included members of National Assembly, representatives of Korean Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Park Ro-byug, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Korea to Russia. Russian side was represented by Evgeny Bazhanov, Rector of Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry, Director of Russia Institute of the USA and Canada Studies Valery Garbuzov as well as Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General.
The meeting ...
The parties paid special attention to possible military and political consequence of THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) deployment in South Korea
Andrey Kortunov and the Ambassor of Republic of Korea Discuss Ways to Reduce Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
On April 19, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Park Ro-byug, the Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Russia.
The meeting covered Russia-Republic of Korea interaction considering the latest escalation in the Korean peninsula and the possibilities of using multilateral formats to alleviate the tensions in the region.
The parties paid special attention ...
On February 22, RIAC welcomed Yoon Young-Kwan, former Minister of foreign affairs and trade of Republic of Korea, and Wi Sung Lac, former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia.
Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with the guests from Seoul.
The parties discussed the current state and prospects of Russia - Republic of Korea relations, security issues on the Korean peninsula and ...
On January 12, 2017, in Moscow Russia’s and China’s representatives agreed to take joint measures against the US missile-defense system in South Korea. Vasily Kashin shares what missile-defense system deployment on the Korean peninsula would mean for regional security and what countermeasures Moscow and Beijing may take.
At this point Russia-China agreement on joint measures to establish ...
On October 3 Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, had a meeting with Park Ro-byug, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Russia.
The following issues were covered during the meeting: Northeast Asia and particularly Korean Peninsula security issues; multilateral ...
On August 3, 2016, RIAC Program Manager for the Arctic and Asia-Pacific Lyudmila Filippova met with representatives of the Future Consensus Institute, South Korea, among them former RoK Ambassador in Moscow Wi Sung-Lac, Vice President Cho Jung-Hun, Director of Research Kim Tai Yoo, and researcher Anna Titenok.
The participants discussed future events on the Arctic, announced their cooperation proposals ...
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... Kortunov met with RoK Ambassador in Moscow Park Ro-byug to discuss a variety of issues pertaining to Russia’s policy in Asia-Pacific, among them:
— Historical, economic and strategic significance of the fastest developing territories and Russia’s New Eastern Policy (Pivot to Asia).
— Steps to be taken by Moscow to bring into balance future cooperation with South Korea and Japan vis-à-vis close cooperation with China.
— Strategic importance and economic value of the EEU’s drive to free trade agreements with Asian countries, and in particular an FTA with RoK.
— The Korean Peninsula ...
... overcome the current crisis in relations between the ROK and the DPRK.
The sides also explored the issues of using international sanctions to improve the situation on the Peninsula, as well as of cooperation between independent analytical centers of Russia’s and South Korea’s expert communities.
Andrey Kortunov briefed the Korean Ambassador on the current and planned RIAC projects in the sphere of international security.
On February 11, 2016 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Republic of Korea Ambassador to Russia Park Ro-byug to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula, opportunities for and constraints of the Russian-Korean bilateral cooperation in promoting security and military-strategic stability in Northeast Asia, given the current phase of North ...
