... Kyrgyzstan, the financial sector, research institutes, and international organizations.
Fares Kilzie, founder and chairman of CREON Group, opened the forum with an analysis of the strategic role of metals and minerals from CIS and EAEU countries for SCO, APEC, and ASEAN states amid the new global energy landscape, data center (DC) development, and artificial intelligence.
Russia’s mining and metallurgical sectors, along with those of the CIS and EAEU, are entering the strategic arena amid sweeping changes—transformations in the global energy, technological, digital, and geopolitical landscapes. It is crucial to emphasize ...
... Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City delivered welcoming remarks.
As part of discussion, special attention was paid to China's role in Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region at large. Vietnamese experts also presented Hanoi's position on Russian‑Chinese initiatives in Eurasia and noted that deeper cooperation between Moscow and Beijing could significantly affect the relations of the pair with the ASEAN countries. In this context, Vietnam adheres to the balancing strategy and pursues cooperation with all priority partners.
Russian experts indicated Russia’s readiness to deepen relations with Vietnam both in the bilateral format and within BRICS+,...
... multilateral understanding on North Korea, but rather how to make sure that the ongoing Russia-DPRK rapprochement is not looked at with suspicions or discontent from Beijing. In the South East Asia this shift has been so far less articulated, but Moscow’s attempts to reach out to ASEAN have had only limited success (for instance, the Russia-ASEAN trade turnout over last couple of years amounted to only USD 20–25 billion). At the same time, Russia has become more supportive of China on the issue of Taiwan.
An important task for the two leaders meeting in Moscow would be to harmonize ...
.... It may also increase the potential of these markets from the point of view of the Russian economy, with which they are best connected logistically.
International organisations... ... closest analogue can only be the cooperation of the Southeast Asian countries within ASEAN. A distinctive feature of the European institutions for security and cooperation... ... major powers, first as of 1975 and then after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. The SCO, in turn, was created without taking into account the balance of forces among the...
.... The ASEAN has accumulated a large amount of experience in security and preventive diplomacy that could be borrowed for resolving issues in Afghanistan. Moreover, the ASEAN uses very appealing formats, for example, the ASEAN+1, ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+6. Russia, China and India also cooperate with ASEAN, drawing parallels for cooperation that is also part of the SCO agenda. And we do plan to work hard in this area.
In September 2014, Russia will take over the SCO presidency. China already presides over the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building in Asia. Could these moves open opportunities for cooperation ...
