MANILA: Russia wants more engagements with Asean member states, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has said.

"I think they would like to have an engagement with Asean and since we are the chairman now, maybe they would like to have a foothold maybe to deal with the other members of the Asean," Lorenzana said when asked about the warming of security and defense ties between the Philippines and Russia, during an interview on PNA Exclusive in Moscow, Russia at about 2 p.m. Tuesday (7 p.m. in Manila).

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