Southeast Asian leaders meet with top US, Chinese and Japanese officials at a series of summits in Indonesia on Wednesday, where big power rivalries and regional issues from the South China Sea to North Korean missiles will be on the table.
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asia Nations will hold separate summits with China, Japan, South Korea and the United States, providing an arena for big powers to lobby the bloc.US Vice President Kamala Harris is attending in place of President Joe Biden, while Chinese Premier Li Qiang is taking part instead of President Xi Jinping.
The roundtable including Lavrov and Harris would be the first high-level US-Russia encounter since a foreign ministers' meeting in Jakarta in July, where US and European officials rounded on Moscow's top diplomat over the invasion of Ukraine.A Southeast Asian diplomat who will be present in Wednesday's meetings told AFP they would conclude with a series of joint statements about closer diplomatic, economic and food security collaboration between the powers and Asean.
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