Putin Urges To Ensure Security In Asia-Pacific Region To Achieve Sustainable Development

Sustainable development of Asia-Pacific region requires ensuring security, preventing the emergence of new conflicts and resolving the old ones through dialogue, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

VLADIVOSTOK (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th September, 2018) Sustainable development of Asia-Pacific region requires ensuring security, preventing the emergence of new conflicts and resolving the old ones through dialogue, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

"We need to ensure stability, peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region, not to allow the emergence of new conflicts and settle long-standing disputes only through dialogue in order to achieve sustainable development. This is the approach that Russia has promoted and will continue to promote at all international fora, in contacts with our partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, APEC, ASEAN, other regional associations," Putin told the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok.