Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at a meeting with Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee Wang Yi, Jakarta, July 13, 2023
13 July 2023 10:00
1399-13-07-2023
Dear friend,
Colleagues,
We met last March in Moscow during President of China Xi Jinping's state visit that was his first foreign trip after being re-elected for a third term. As you said, the visit produced some very important documents that confirmed the continuity in Russia-China relations, our intention to continue their comprehensive development and to promote the principles of justice, equality and mutual benefit in international affairs.
The extensive and wide-ranging agenda of the Russia-China dialogue requires coordinating our positions regularly, which makes this meeting today rather timely. We support ASEAN's determination to maintain its constructive role in the Asia-Pacific region and support ASEAN-centric mechanisms. Along with China, we are committed to strengthening them. We presented all these approaches to Foreign Minister of Indonesia and ASEAN Chair Retno Marsudi yesterday. We will continue to promote this principled line in the course of the upcoming events in Jakarta, the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum. I look forward to a productive dialogue.
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