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Moscow, Aug 16, Moscow will continue to boost military cooperation with countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said. Pointing to the "increase in Western states' military presence in Asia, Africa and Latin America with the US continuing to improve its military bases", Shoigu said at the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security that "we will continue to strengthen military cooperation with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region ... with which we have historically established particularly privileged relations". The Russian defence minister noted that the emergence of a multipolar world order, mechanisms for boosting cooperation between…