The Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Sri Lanka are Russia’s important and ambitious partners in the Asia-Pacific region

The official ceremony of presentation of foreign ambassadors’ letters of credence to the Russian President Vladimir Putin was held on November 26, 2015.
Vladimir Putin received letters of credence from 15 foreign ambassadors, in particular representing the Asia-Pacific countries (Park Ro-byug (Republic of Korea), Saman Kumara Ranjit Weerasinghe (Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka), Ms Hayati Binti Ismail (Malaysia)).
In his statement Vladimir Putin noted that the 2015 witnesses 25 years of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Korea – Russia’s important and ambitious partner in the Asia-Pacific Region. Vladimir Putin emphasized that Russia intends to implement jointly with the Republic of Korea major trade and investment projects.
Taking the letter of credence from the ambassador of Sri Lanka, Vladimir Putin said that enhancing the contractual legal framework for cooperation between Russia and Sri Lanka creates preconditions for deepening bilateral relations in various areas of, in particular fisheries and agriculture.
According to Vladimir Putin, Russia will continue promoting political, trade and investment cooperation with Malaysia. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to attend the anniversary Russia-ASEAN summit to be held in May 2016 in Sochi.
Press-release at the official web-site of the President of the Russian Federation