{"id":17162,"date":"2024-09-05T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=17162"},"modified":"2024-09-05T13:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T05:14:37","slug":"putin-expects-malaysia-russia-trade-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=17162","title":{"rendered":"Putin expects Malaysia-Russia trade to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VLADIVOSTOK (Russia), Sept 5&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Trade between Russia and Malaysia&nbsp;stands at nearly $3.5&nbsp;billion (US$1 = RM4.3505), with significant growth,&nbsp;there&nbsp;according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<br><br>Kremlin.ru&nbsp;reported that Putin&nbsp;expects&nbsp;new opportunities for&nbsp;cooperation&nbsp;with ASEAN when Malaysia&nbsp;takes over&nbsp;the&nbsp;presidency&nbsp;in 2025.&nbsp;\u201cWe are determined&nbsp;to&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;our&nbsp;relationship&nbsp;with ASEAN, it is well&nbsp;understood&nbsp;that Malaysia plays&nbsp;an important&nbsp;role in the association.<br><br>&#8220;Next&nbsp;year, Malaysia will lead the&nbsp;meeting,&nbsp;I am confident that during your&nbsp;administration,&nbsp;we will discover new&nbsp;ways of&nbsp;cooperation&nbsp;in&nbsp;this&nbsp;difficult region,&#8221; said&nbsp;the&nbsp;president, said Kremlin.ru, Wednesday, September 4. Prime&nbsp;Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim met with President Vladimir Putin for a&nbsp;second round of talks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stop Israel killings in Gaza<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from that, Malaysia and Russia have agreed that the international community&nbsp;will work hard&nbsp;to&nbsp;stop Israel&#8217;s campaign of killings&nbsp;in Gaza,&nbsp;said&nbsp;Prime&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.<br><br>Furthermore,&nbsp;Anwar also expressed&nbsp;the&nbsp;hope that Russia will&nbsp;follow&nbsp;a constructive&nbsp;way to achieve&nbsp;a&nbsp;permanent peace of&nbsp;the conflict in Ukraine,&nbsp;based&nbsp;on the&nbsp;basis of the peace agreement. &#8220;With&nbsp;continued&nbsp;participation,&nbsp;I believe we can deepen our understanding&nbsp;in&nbsp;these&nbsp;difficult times,&#8221;&nbsp;he&nbsp;said&nbsp;in a&nbsp;message published today&nbsp;on X (formerly&nbsp;Twitter).<br><br>The&nbsp;meeting&nbsp;coincides&nbsp;with&nbsp;Anwar&#8217;s&nbsp;two-day&nbsp;official&nbsp;visit, during which he will address&nbsp;a&nbsp;session of the 9th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VLADIVOSTOK (Russia), Sept 5&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Trade between Russia and Malaysia&nbsp;stands at nearly $3.5&nbsp;billion (US$1 = RM4.3505), with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",696,464,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",696,464,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",696,464,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",696,464,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",696,464,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/anwar-putin-696x464-1.jpg",696,464,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17178,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions\/17178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}