Russia should offer competitive rates compared with those carried by China’s sovereign funding assistance to the Philippines as Manila and Moscow also explore areas of closer cooperation, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.

Sharing Moscow’s desire to strengthen bilateral ties, the Duterte administration has opened the Philippines’ foreign policy to welcome Russian business and pursue greater economic cooperation between the two countries, just as it is doing with China.

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