The 12th ASEAN-Russia Joint Cooperation Committee Meeting was held on 25 April 2014 at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Meeting was co-chaired by H.E. Dato' Hasnudin Hamzah, Permanent Representative of Malaysia to ASEAN, and H.E. Mikhail Galuzin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Indonesia and to ASEAN.
The Meeting reviewed the current status of the ASEAN-Russia cooperation including the progress achieved in the priority sectors of the Dialogue Partnership relations namely, the political and security, economic, science and technology, social and cultural, and connectivity. During the Meeting, both ASEAN and Russia stressed the need to draft a new Comprehensive Programme of Action (CPA) to promote cooperation between ASEAN and the Russian Federation for the period beyond 2015 which will serve as a key document of ASEAN-Russia relations.
The Meeting noted with satisfaction the progress of the joint activities carried out under the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership, which include among others the First ASEAN-Russia Youth Summit, the ASEAN-Russia Business Forum, visits of the Russian Business Mission to several ASEAN Member States, as well as concerts performed by the ASEAN-Russia Symphony Orchestra of Young Musicians. ASEAN and Russia also agreed to work together to streamline the consolidated draft Flowchart for Appraisal, Approval, Financing and Reporting of the Joint Projects funded by the ARDPFF. The Meeting agreed that this would facilitate and expedite the remaining work of the current CPA that will expire in 2015.