LIMA, Nov 19 – RIA Novosti. Summit of heads of state and government of the APEC countries opens Saturday in the Peruvian capital.
Traditionally, prior to the summit, the Council of foreign Ministers and trade Ministers ended in Lima on the eve of the adoption of a joint Declaration in which the parties have outlined the General approaches in such areas as strengthening regional economic integration, improving the quality of food markets, the development of small and medium enterprises and human capital development.
the first day of the summit held a plenary session and the official reception on behalf of President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. It is expected that on Saturday the President of Russia Vladimir Putin will hold five bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Japan, China, Peru, the Philippines and Vietnam. It is not excluded and conversation “on his feet” with outgoing President Barack Obama.
Free discussion
As reported by the Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, on Saturday the summit will begin with a plenary session in which will participate the leaders of APEC economies and members of Business Advisory Council. Russia Business Council will be represented by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Basic element” Oleg Deripaska, the head of RDIF Kirill Dmitriev and the President of VTB Andrey Kostin.
the Main topics of discussion at the plenary institution, where he is scheduled to Putin’s speech will be the situation in the world economy, integration processes in the Asia-Pacific and the formation of the Asia-Pacific free trade zone.
According to Ushakov, will also include issues of food security, promotion of small and medium businesses, expand cooperation in educational sphere.
Next, the discussion will be in free format, the participants split into five thematic groups. The leaders of Russia, Taiwan, Canada and Papua New Guinea included in one such group, will discuss measures to support long-term investment and financial stability.
Trade, energy and counter-terrorism
Ushakov said that the participation of the Russian delegation to the APEC forum is focused primarily on the development of cooperation in the sphere of trade, strengthening food and energy security, the expansion of transport infrastructure, the formation of a common educational space, the fight against corruption and to improve preparedness for emergency situations.
Along with the economic issues, an important topic of the summit will be the fight against terrorism.
“We occupy in fact a leading position in counter-terrorism cooperation in the framework of APEC, focusing on the task of preventing the use of channels of financing of terrorists,” — said Ushakov, adding that Russia advocates the exchange of operational information on terrorist movements with an emphasis on the fight against the militants of the “Islamic state” (a group banned in Russia).
Terrorism vs economy
Return the global economy to growth is prevented, particularly the threat of terrorism, “the information war” and unilateral sanctions, said Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
In an article published in the media of the APEC summit, the Russian Minister noted that this meeting will take place on the background of the turbulent situation in the world politics and economy. “The ongoing process of the formation of a new polycentric world order is accompanied by the growth of instability. Higher risks related to terrorism and extremism, regional conflicts, migration crisis. Spin the “information war” aimed at undermining sovereign States”, — said the Russian foreign Minister.
“In the same nefarious purposes, a number of countries increasingly use practice illegal unilateral trade and financial sanctions in circumvention of the exclusive prerogatives of the UN Security Council. All this seriously complicates the efforts on the final overcoming the crisis and returning the global economy on the path of steady and balanced growth. Suffer investment activity, the rate of growth of global GDP and volume of international trade”, he added.
According to Lavrov, in the Asia-Pacific region is a manifestation of these negative trends is mitigated by the strong technological and financial capacity to hold on to leading positions in world Affairs. “However, it is clear that the increasing complex challenges will undoubtedly have a negative impact on long-term growth prospects in the region,” he said.
lineup Changes
this year the summit overshadows political scandal in South Korea. For the first time at the summit the country will be not the head of state Park Geun-Hye and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn. The decision was pleasant because of the outbreak in South Korea political scandal, Park Geun-Hye and her close friend Choi sung-SIL. The popularity ranking Park Geun-Hye dropped to 5%, and its policy does not approve of 90% of the population. Claims about her resignation, but the authorities insist that now’s not the time, given the political and military tensions in the relations with the DPRK.
Some changes have occurred in the composition of the Russian delegation. Instead the former Minister of economic development of Russia Alexei Ulyukayev, Deputy Stanislav Voskresensky took part in the meeting of Ministers of APEC.
In the night of Tuesday Russia’s Investigative Committee announced that the speaker was caught red-handed when receiving a bribe in two million dollars for the Ministry of economic development issued a positive evaluation, which allowed Rosneft to acquire state-owned shares “Bashneft”, the legality of the transaction in this case is not disputed. On Tuesday, the court sent the speaker under house arrest until January 15. Later, Russian President Vladimir Putin freed him from a post in connection with loss of trust.
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