Manila, June 19 -- The Philippines and Russia are considering expanding cooperation in emerging sectors, such as nuclear energy, space technology, and artificial intelligence (AI), President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said Thursday.

This developed as Marcos and Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the two nations have to step up their cooperation beyond traditional sectors.

"Beyond that, we now are available - (there are) other sectors that we didn't talk about before. We talked a great deal about nuclear energy. We talked a great deal about space technology. We talked a great deal about AI, of course, as we always do," Marcos said in a media interview before departing Kazan, Russia.

He noted that while the Philippine-Russi...