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Lavrov says Russia, ASEAN approve road map to implement Sochi summit decisions

MANILA, August 8. /TASS/. Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed the implementation schedule of the decisions made at the May 2016 summit held in Sochi, and decided to set up an expert group to consider further cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said following the ASEAN meetings in Manila. "During the ASEAN-Russia ministerial meeting, we congratulated our counterparts on the 50th anniversary of the organization and considered the process of implementing the agreements reached at the Sochi summit in May 2016," Lavrov said. "We have approved a road map to implement the recommendations that a group of prominent figures submitted to the presidents for a review during that summit," the Russian top diplomat added. "We have also approved a separate statement encouraging us to cooperate more actively in the fight against terrorism, adopted an action program concerning the fight against drug trafficking and confirmed our readiness to increase the number of grants that we provide to our ASEAN counterparts so that their law enforcement officers could study at the educational institutions of the Russian Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service," Lavrov pointed out. The Russian foreign minister went on to say that during the ASEAN meetings, economic cooperation had also been discussed. "There are a lot of reserves," he said. "We have agreed more than 20 projects that are currently being prepared and will be thoroughly considered at the meeting of the economy ministers of Russia and ASEAN, scheduled to be held in September. Also in September, a dialogue between the Russian and ASEAN business circles is expected to take place on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum," Lavrov noted. The Russian top diplomat added that a special expert group would work on the further development of relations between Russia and ASEAN. "Another result of our meeting is that we have established an academic expert group to consider our future cooperation," Lavrov said. Read more

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