Moscow keen to build seamless Asia-Pacific community

Moscow is playing a more "active and constructive" role in the Asia-Pacific to facilitate the establishment of "one single economic entity" in the region, a senior Russian diplomat told China Daily on Thursday.

"It is our ultimate goal to work with regional partners to build a seamless Asia-Pacific community in terms of trade and economic cooperation, based on the principles of openness, inclusiveness, transparency and equality," said Valery Sorokin, Russia's senior official for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.

Sorokin is attending this year's fourth and final APEC Senior Officials' Meeting in Beijing, which marks the climax of the economic leaders' meeting on Monday and Tuesday.