Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will take part in the 17th East Asia Summit in Cambodia on Saturday and Sunday.
The Russian top diplomat is leading Russia’s delegation to the summit. On its sidelines, the Russian foreign minister will also hold several bilateral meetings.
From Cambodia, Lavrov will travel to Bali as the head of Russia’s delegation to the G20 summit.
Within the framework of the East Asia Summit, the Russian side intends to discuss in detail the challenges that the Asia-Pacific Region is encountering. According to Moscow, the key ones among them are the attempts by the United States of America and its allies to upset the balance of the current system of transnational relations established in the region and their aspiration "to bring a confrontational charge to Asia with narrow-bloc instruments of domination."
Russia also sees "dangerous trends" in the fact that NATO military and military-technological structures "are literally being brought" into the region, merging this infrastructure with the military potential of Washington's allies including the AUKUS alliance (Australia, Britain and the US). Lavrov repeatedly stressed that the South China Sea would become a new NATO’s "line of defense."
