The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, says he wants to build a \u201creliable security architecture\u201d, in the Asia-Pacific region. He made these remarks on Thursday, during a state visit to Vietnam, which is part of a \u2018two-nation\u2019 trip to Asia, viewed by many \u201cas [a] show of defiance to the West\u201d. A day after signing a mutual defence agreement with North Korea, Putin received a 21-gun salute at a military ceremony, in Vietnam. He was embraced by two of its Communist leaders and lavishly praised by one of them. Putin\u2019s visit has drawn criticism from the United States and its allies, who treat the Russian leader as a \u2018pariah\u2019. They have protested that he should not be given a stage, to defend the war in Ukraine. Russia and Vietnam penned agreements on issues, including energy. This underlines Moscow\u2019s pivot towards Asia, after the West imposed sanctions on the Kremlin over the conflict in Ukraine. \u201cWe are firmly committed to deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership with Vietnam, which remains among the priorities of Russia\u2019s foreign policy,\u201d Putin was quoted as saying, by Russian media. \u201cWe are ready to continue active joint work on a wide range of topics, including economic, scientific and technical ties, defence, security and humanitarian contacts.\u201d He was quoted by Russia\u2019s TASS news agency as saying that the two countries shared an interest in \u201cdeveloping a reliable security architecture\u201d in the region, based on \u2018not using force\u2019 and \u2018peacefully\u2019 settling disputes with no room for \u201cclosed military-political blocs\u201d. The 11 pacts signed in Hanoi were not on the same level as the landmark agreement, reached in North Korea. Putin\u2019s warm welcome was an achievement for the Russian leader, who has an outstanding International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him, over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, says he wants to build a \u201creliable security architecture\u201d, in the Asia-Pacific region. He made these remarks on Thursday,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18189,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}