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or whatnot. If you are going to build a pipeline 4 thousand kilometer-long complete
with a refinery you must have a clear idea about the market demand; but the point is
that now this market is occupied. The Chinese will rather buy a Japanese plant. So I am
very pessimistic about the Asian energy vector because to succeed we need clear ideas
about our eastward movement and well-calculated risks.
Mikhail Galuzin,
Director, Third Asian Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation:
I am in a position to offer an analysis of the current trends in our relations with them
seen through the prism of Russia's interests in the APR as a whole. Russia's deeper in-
tegration in the region, the modernization and innovation segments in the first place,
can be described as our priority there.
Some of the Russian companies are successfully operating, albeit on a modest scale, in
the high-tech segment of Southeast Asian economy.
The scope and strategic importance of our cooperation with Japan make it very impor-
tant indeed, even though it is still burdened with what we inherited from the past.
The positive trends which prevailed in our bilateral relations with the Southeast Asian
countries will go on and develop in 2011 due to our APEC-2012 chairmanship.
Vyacheslav Nikonov,
Chairman, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, Russian
National Committee:
In 2010, Russia turned to the East and the APR. The State Council of Russia which met
in Khabarovsk to discuss our prospects in the region instructed to draw a new concept
of strengthening Russia's regional positions because the global center of power is shifting
to the APR. This can be described as the key mega-trend of the contemporary world
whipped up by the world economic crisis.
The Asian part of the APR is an important testing ground of political modernization
which cannot be described as pure Westernization. It is a special development road which
brought together democratic governance and local political culture.
The conflict potential in the region requires a lot of attention: the multiplying threats
and security challenges are directly related to the interests of the Russian Federation. In
the first place, this refers to the state of affairs on the Korean Peninsula and the South
China Sea where the problems might affect the geopolitical interests of the largest world
powers. There is a multitude of still unsettled border problems and a serious threat of
political de stabilization in some of the countries.
While paying greater attention to our positions in the raw material sector, we should also
promote new high-tech products and services and concentrate at joint projects in the
sphere of industrial advanced technologies. I have in mind our nuclear power production
and nuclear-fuel cycle projects in Vietnam. Japan has already entered the Vietnamese
market of electric power stations.
It is very important to identify our place in the region's fairly complicated geopolitical
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