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The 42nd ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting, hosted by Vietnam, has completed all ten agendas during its course spanning March 9 and 10.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi appreciated China’s cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a press conference on March 7.

The Vietnam Marine Administration (VINAMARINE) has informed that it will chair the upcoming ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group (MTWG) Meeting, which is scheduled to take place virtually in Hanoi on March 9 and 10.

As the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) are approaching, some localities including Quang Ninh and Bac Ninh provinces are speeding up all-round preparations to host the event.

ASEAN members are working on facilitating increased trade, removing trade barriers and reducing transaction costs to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, the top official at Thailand's Department of Trade Negotiations said on March 4.

The Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on March 3 called for an immediate ceasefire or armistice in Ukraine, reiterating their belief that ‘there is still room for a peaceful dialogue’.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and ASEAN leaders have been invited by the US President to attend a special ASEAN-US summit to be held in Washington DC in the coming time, spokeswoman of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang has announced.

ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Lim Jock Hoi and UK Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan have discussed overall economic ties between the two sides.

ASEAN and Chile have held the third ASEAN-Chile Development Partnership Committee (AC-DPC) Meeting via videoconference.

The seventh ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Dialogue took place online on February 17 to discuss the findings and recommendations in the ASEAN Business Sentiment Study 2020/2021, which gauged ongoing sentiment of the ASEAN indigenous enterprises towards the implementation of the AEC Blueprint 2025.

ASEAN foreign ministers shared the view that solidarity and unanimity remain the key factor in the bloc’s activities while attending their meeting retreat (AMMR), held in Phnom Penh on February 16 - 17.

The ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) took place both in person and via videoconference on February 16 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Chair of the bloc in 2022.

The ASEAN - Russia Year of Scientific and Technical Cooperation (ARYSTC) 2022 opened on February 14 with a ceremony held by the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI) and the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The 29th Meeting of the ASEAN-EU Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) was held recently via videoconference.