Medvedev flew to Hanoi for the Asean summit

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev flew in Hanoi. He will stay there for two days. Today, Medvedev will take part in the Russia-ASEAN summit. And on Sunday, the official visit of the President of the Russian Federation to Vietnam will take place.

As presidential assistant Sergei Prikhodko told reporters, "one of the main topics at the summit in Hano will be a discussion of the prospects for promoting the Russia-Asian dialog partnership."

A source in the Kremlin in an interview with ITAR-TASS noted that Russia is "interesting to ASEAN countries as a system partner in both the economic and political sphere." "The ASEAN states have long declared the multi -vector efforts of their efforts in the Pacific region, with Australia, with the USA. For them, an advanced phase of relations with Russia, if not balances, helps to create comfortable conditions for cooperation with other states. This is quite natural," the expert said.

The summit is planned by the Prime Minister Vietnam, then- the Russian president, the performance of Prime Minister Myanmar. After that, leaders will discuss the state and prospects for the development of dialogue partnership in the form of free discussion.

"It is fundamentally important for us to declare the support of multilateral diplomacy, the conjunction of the actions of many -way structures as ASEAN, APEC, SCO, and the Eastern Asian Summit," Prikhodko said. Leaders will discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula, around the Iranian nuclear program.

"I think that a significant place will be given to discuss the financial and economic aspects of joint efforts in overcoming the financial crisis, security architecture issues in the Asia -Pacific region, the participation of Russia in the activities of regional multilateral associations," he added.

“We intend to inform our partners about the economic situation in Russia, about the course of Russia's accession to the WTO,” Medvedev’s assistant emphasized. The approaches agreed by the leaders will be recorded in the final joint statement.

"Among the priorities of interaction - the increase in trade and economic cooperation (in 2009, the volume of mutual trade amounted to $ 6.8 billion), cooperation in the field of regional energy security, high technologies, space research, medicine, information technology, mechanical engineering," he added.

“The summit is preceded by a meeting of representatives of the business of Russia and the ASEAN (October 28),” Medvedev’s assistant recalled. “The main task of this event is to contribute to building and deepening direct partnerships between leading Russian and Asian entrepreneurs, as well as create a favorable background for discussing economic issues to leaders.”

The heads of state "will consider the course of the implementation of a comprehensive program for the development of cooperation between Russia-ASEAN for 2005-2015 and an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of development of 2005." Prikhodko said that "the Russia-ASEANS Energy Cooperation work program was adopted for 2010-2015 in key areas, including traditional (oil, gas, electricity) and renewable energy, including nuclear, environmentally friendly technologies."

"This framework document fixes our readiness to focus on such topics as energy conservation, diversification of transport and other energy supply schemes, interaction with other neighbors, ensuring the safety of energy supply, diversification, and also emphasizes our attitude to the importance of atomic energy, the stable functioning of energy sources sales markets," the assistant assistant explained, the assistant assistant explained resident.

“It is planned to pay special attention during the meeting at the highest level to establish interaction in the field of emergency response,” he continued. “On the agenda, the question of providing Russia to reduce the gap in the level of development between Asian states, in particular, in ensuring food security, preparing national personnel and implementing the programs for the development of the Meccation River Bass,”.

As part of the summit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the ASEAN countries, they will sign an interconnection of cooperation in the field of culture, "which will contribute to the creation of the necessary organizational and legal framework for increasing humanitarian ties with a" ten "and expanding our information presence in the region."

"In 2011, the Russian ASEAN dialog box is 15 years old. The ASEAN Culture Day program in the ASEAN Culture Culture in the Assan Country Partnership will be discussed at consultations in binding to the next meeting of the ASEAN on Culture and Information Committee (Singapore, November 9-13)," the Kremlin said.

"The first meeting of Russia-Asian took place on December 13, 2005 in Kuala Lumpur," Prikhodko recalled. "The upcoming summit will be an important step in solving the tasks set by the President of Russia to strengthen the positions of our country in the Asia -Pacific region, intensify participation in regional integration processes in the interests of accelerating the modernization and innovative development of the national economy," he said.

"The Asia -Pacific region accounts for about 60 percent of the global GDP, 50 percent of the volume of world trade and about 40 percent of the combined world investment. Today is the ASEAN with its 580 millionth population, totaling GDP of $ 1.7 trillion of dollars and stable economic growths - one of the largest regional organizations that plays The most important role in the process of formation of security architecture and cooperation in the Asia -Pacific region, ”the Kremlin said.

“Over the past, the period of the legal framework, the mechanisms of the Rossiy -ASEAN dialogue partnership has been done since 2005,” Prikhodko said. “Currently, meetings of foreign ministers and ministers of the economy, meetings of senior officials in various areas are regularly held. Direct contacts between experts in the economy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy. emergency response. "

In addition, “the financial fund of the Russia-ASEAN dialog partnership was created, at the expense of which in 2007-2010, projects were implemented“ use by enterprises of small and medium-sized enterprises of the ASEAN of National Systems of Electronic Commerce ”,“ Cooperation in the scientific and methodological field of studying a foreign language of business and professional communication in ASEAN countries ”,“ The course of the Russian language for tour operators ”. on the development and creation of new generation vaccines and on renewable energy sources.

ASEAN includes Brunei, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines.