Given the keen interest of some partners even from unfriendly countries in developing cooperation with Russia, formats similar to the Summit could be successful
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The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit will be held on November 18-19, 2022 in Thailand amid unprecedented tensions in the international arena caused by the confrontation between Russia and NATO, the escalation in the Taiwan Strait and mounting instability on the Korean Peninsula....
... 2010. At the same time, President Putin represented Russia at the 3
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Russian Federation Summit on Strategic Partnership. Two days later, in Port Moresby, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit that had previously enjoyed priority attention of the President of the Russian Federation compared to other regional mechanisms.
Russia has stepped up its participation in multilateral mechanisms in the Asia Pacific at a time when contradictions ...
... Vice-President Mike Pence at APEC, that an Australia-US joint military base would be set up on the now infamous Manus Island In PNG, to confront the presumed adversary to the north, China.
Anton Tsvetov:
Russia and Multilateral Diplomacy in East Asia
APEC has a long and creditable history. It was a mainly Australian vision, under Hawke and Keating, to develop an Asia-Pacific regional cooperative grouping that would not go the way of that discredited and now moribund Cold War relic, SEATO. The focus would be on economic cooperation under a free market framework, but not aggressively so. APEC would be open to all....
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement signed in February 2016 is one of the main achievements of US policy of promoting American multinational companies interests in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR). Sources close to the White House claim that more than 600 US corporations were involved in the text drafting and preliminary negotiations with partner countries. All TPP countries are APEC economies. Australia, Canada, Mexico, the United States and Japan are G20 member-states.
It is important to note that none of the provisions in the TPP agreement contradicts the principles of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, TPP launches ...
... reached in 2015.
Right now, Russia has no option but to continue upholding multilateralism in world trade because of all the APEC members only Russia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea do not participate in any regional integration group in the Asia-Pacific.
Summing up the results of APEC’s work in 2015, we should note that the organization has been paying more and more attention to analytical work, backing up all the talk words with hard figures, statistics and indicators. Some experts say that APEC is gradually becoming something ...
... trade ministers in the Philippines concluded – one of the key points of APEC’s annual programme. Trade ministers traditionally meet in the middle of the year to discuss ways to stimulate, facilitate and liberalise trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region.
For Russia, APEC is in fact the only platform in which the country participates in integration processes within the Asia-Pacific region through forming the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). The aims of the FTAAP were outlined back in 2006, and yet the ...
... V.L. Likhachev, Ph.D. in Technology; S.A. Lukonin, Ph.D. in Economics; G.V. Menzhulin, Dr. of Technology; A.V. Novikov; Yu.A. Prokhorova; S.V. Sevastyanov, Dr. of Political Science; N.V. Stapran, Ph.D. in History.
Russia’s Guiding Landmarks in the Asia-Pacific after the APEC Summit in Vladivostok
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Another 2012 priority is consolidation of food security. This problem will apparently become one of the principal ones
for the 21st century world politics, and there it is difficult to overestimate the role of the APEC region. Meanwhile, in this area multilateral cooperation by the Asia-Pacific countries is still in rompers. We lack a coordinated regional approach to managing the risks of food security. Clearly, the need has long been overdue to tackle such matters as lessening food price volatility, loss reduction while transporting ...
