The Special ASEAN-Russia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Jakarta on 6 July 2021 in view of 30 years of ASEAN-Russia relations and 25 years of the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership in 2021 and to follow up last year’s Special Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Covid-19. The Meeting was co-chaired by H.E. Retno Marsudi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, and H.E. Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Jakarta. While H.E. Dato Lim Jock Hoi, Secretary-General of ASEAN and other ASEAN Member States participated in the Meeting via videoconference.

The Meeting reviewed the achievements of ASEAN-Russia relations over the past three decades across a wide range of areas, including political, security, health, trade and economic cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges, which were exemplified in the elevation of the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership to the strategic level in 2018.