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Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with high representatives of small island states of the southern part of the Pacific Ocean
On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held the next in a series of meetings with high representatives of small island states of the southern part of the Pacific Ocean on the sidelines of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, currently underway in New York.
The parties discussed issues of interaction as part of the implementation of the Joint Communique of September 28, 2012. They also confirmed their intention to build up practical cooperation between Russia and its subregional partners on a wide range of issues of mutual interest.
The meeting concluded with the signing of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Mutual Visa-Free Travel, the Plan of Foreign Ministerial Consultations with Vanuatu for 2017–2018 and the Interdepartmental Memorandum on Cooperation in Fisheries with Nauru.