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AMM 50: Dialogue partners affirm ASEAN’s role, cooperation

Meetings between the ASEAN foreign ministers and their counterparts from the bloc’s dialogue partners of Canada, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand took place in Manila, the Philippines, on August 6 morning.
AMM 50: Dialogue partners affirm ASEAN’s role, cooperation ảnh 1ASEAN-Canada Ministerial Meeting (Source: VNA)

 Hanoi (VNA) – Meetings between the ASEAN foreign ministers and their counterpartsfrom the bloc’s dialogue partners of Canada, the Republic of Korea and NewZealand took place in Manila, the Philippines, on August 6 morning, as part ofthe ongoing 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and relatedmeetings.

At the ASEAN - Canadameeting, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland pledged that her countryis willing to support the process of driving back extremism in the region.

Meanwhile, at the meeting with their ASEAN counterparts, the foreign ministersfrom the Republic of Korea (RoK) and New Zealand, affirmed the role of the blocin the region and expressed wishes to step up bilateral ties.

RoK Foreign MinisterKang Kyung-Wha asserted that the RoK government always sees ASEAN a key partnerin its strategy to expand external relations.

New Zealand’sForeign Minister Gerry Brownlee said with the 50-year history, ASEAN’s politicaland economic role has increasingly been affirmed.

More ASEAN 1 meetings, with Australia, China, Japan, India, the US, Russia,and the European Union, and other related meetings, are taking place inManila.-VNA



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