ASEAN-MALAYSIA/INDIA-RUSSIA Russian and Indian representatives meet ASEAN delegates

Record ID: 144943

  • Title: ASEAN-MALAYSIA/INDIA-RUSSIA Russian and Indian representatives meet ASEAN delegates
  • Date: 5th August 2015
  • Summary: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (AUGUST 5, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV AND OTHER FOREIGN MINISTERS WALKING ONTO STAGE FOR PHOTO OPPORTUNITY LAVROV AND MALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ANIFAH AMAN, LINKING HANDS FOREIGN MINISTERS LINKING HANDS TO DO "ASEAN HANDSHAKE" LAVROV FOLLOWED BY ANIFAH LEAVING STAGE ASE
  • Embargoed: 20th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Malaysia
  • Country: Malaysia
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABIFZW76V73DTHCG6LB9AMZ4EJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and India's Minister of State for External Affairs, General Vijay Kumar Singh, met Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers on Wednesday (August 5) during two ministerial meetings in Kuala Lumpur.
    Lavrov and Singh are both in Malaysia, which is hosting this year's annual ASEAN meeting, for talks with the 10-member ASEAN, where tensions in the South China Sea have taken centre stage.
    The two leaders took to the stage with ASEAN delegates for a photo opportunity at the start of their respective meetings, before sitting down for talks.
    Lavrov was also expected to meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for a second time in three days on Wednesday.
    Kerry and Lavrov would "discuss a range of ?issues of mutual concern" at the meeting in the Malaysian capital, a senior official of the U.S. State Department said without elaborating.
    Kerry, also in Malaysia for ASEAN meetings, held trilateral talks with Lavrov and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on the war in Syria in Qatar on Monday (August 3).
    Russia has been trying to bring about rapprochement between the Syrian government and regional states including Saudi Arabia and Turkey to forge an alliance to fight Islamic State militants who have taken large amounts of territory in Syria's civil war.
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