"The integration processes in the Asia-Pacific region are becoming a driving force of trade and economic development, and Russia is actively involved in them," Lavrov said in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia's Far East before his departure for South Korea.
Lavrov's official program of stay in South Korea begins Monday with his participation in the Asian forum, while negotiations are scheduled for Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry's information and press department said.
The talks will focus on the North Korea nuclear program and the efforts to link Russia's Trans-Siberian railway with the trans-Korean railroad, the information and press department said.
The Asian Cooperation Dialog forum unites 30 states and discusses the ways of cooperation between Asian countries in removing differences in their social and economic development, and also the region's pressing problems.
