Russian Deputy Defence Minister Oleg Savelyev takes part in 12th Meeting of ASEAN Defence Ministers and Dialogue Partners (ADMM Plus)
01 November 2025 07:05
On 1 November 2025, Deputy Defence Minister of the Russian Federation Oleg Savelyev took part in the 12th Meeting of ASEAN Defence Ministers and Dialogue Partners in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur). The summit is held on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of ADMM Plus establishment.
In his address, the Deputy Defence Minister stressed the importance of multilateral military cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region to maintain stability in the region.
Oleg Savelyev emphasised the Russian Defence Ministry's contribution to the ADMM Plus and assessed the current situation in the sphere of global and regional security.
'Russia advocates for respecting the principle of common and indivisible security, which implies mutual respect between nations and ensuring the interests of the states without prejudice to the security of other countries,' noted the Deputy Defence Minister of the Russian Federation.
The Deputy Defence Minister stressed: 'In addition, we are forced to note the increasingly persistent actions of certain non-regional powers leading to directly opposed results. We see a particular danger in the Indo-Pacific strategies of the West's active line of action to blur, reform, and replace the ASEAN-centric security architecture in Asia-Pacific region that has developed over the years with new closed bloc structures such as AUKUS, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, QUAD, SQUAD, JAPHUS, and others.'
Oleg Savelyev added that their activities lead to the emergence of new divisions and hotspots in the region.
'In view of the current consolidation of the Alliance's force capabilities in Asia, we believe that it is likely that these structures will be transformed into the Indo-Pacific Alliance in the near future, a direct equivalent to the NATO. The consequences of the aggressive NATO enlargement in Europe following the dissolution of the Soviet Union ultimately led to the inevitability of the military operation in Ukraine,' added the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation.
On the sidelines of the summit, the Deputy Head of the Russian Defence Ministry held meetings with the Deputy Defence Minister of Malaysia and the Minister of Defence of Laos. They discussed bilateral military cooperation plans for 2026 as well as prospects for the development of relations in regional multilateral formats, notably ADMM Plus.
ADMM Plus is a mechanism of interaction between defence agencies of 10 ASEAN Southeast Asian countries and dialogue partner states (Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, USA), established in April 2010 at the initiative of Vietnam.
The activities of specialists within ADMM Plus are carried out in seven expert working groups: humanitarian demining, humanitarian assistance and emergency response, military medicine, maritime security, counter-terrorism, organisation of peacekeeping operations, and cyber security.
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