{"id":40950,"date":"2019-09-05T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=40950"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:33:13","slug":"mahathir-putin-looking-to-stronger-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=40950","title":{"rendered":"Mahathir, Putin looking to stronger bilateral ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>VLADIVOSTOK (Russia), Sept 5 (Bernama)&nbsp;&#8212; Prime Minister Dr Mahathir and&nbsp;Russian President Vladimir Putin held a&nbsp;bilateral meeting&nbsp;on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Summit (EES) where both leaders discussed efforts to further strengthen&nbsp;bilateral ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 30-minute discussion in the port city overlooking Golden Horn Bay, near the borders with China and North Korea, they also spoke about trade and innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahathir and Putin&nbsp;previously met on the&nbsp;sidelines of the East Asia Summit held in Singapore last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EES, which was established by decree of Putin in 2015 to support the economic development of Russia\u2019s Far East, takes place between Sept 4 and 6, 2019 at&nbsp;the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forum organiser Roscongress Foundation quoted Putin as saying the development of Russia\u2019s&nbsp;Far East, including strengthening of its economic and innovative potential, as well as raising the living standards of its residents, is the country indisputable priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Partnership between the business circles of Russia and the Asia-Pacific Region is growing stronger,&#8221; he said in&nbsp;a greeting statement to all participants of EEF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia and Russia enjoyed more than 50 years of cordial&nbsp;diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar VLADIVOSTOK (Russia), Sept 5 (Bernama)&nbsp;&#8212; Prime Minister Dr Mahathir and&nbsp;Russian President Vladimir Putin held a&nbsp;bilateral meeting&nbsp;on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Summit (EES) where both leaders discussed efforts to further strengthen&nbsp;bilateral ties between the two countries. During the 30-minute discussion in the port city overlooking Golden Horn Bay, near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":40954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}