ASEAN 2020: Vietnam lauded for leading ASEAN Community through challenges

Foreign delegates lauded Vietnam for her efforts in leading the ASEAN Community through challenges, while attending the 27th ASEAN Coordinating Council as part of the online 53rd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-53) and related meetings that opened on September 9.
ASEAN 2020: Vietnam lauded for leading ASEAN Community through challenges ảnh 1The video conference was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. (Photo: VNA)


Hanoi (VNA) –
Foreign delegates lauded Vietnam for her efforts in leadingthe ASEAN Community through challenges, while attending the 27th ASEANCoordinating Council as part of the online 53rd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’Meeting (AMM-53) and related meetings that opened on September 9.

The video conferencewas chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

It was joined by ASEAN Secretary General LimJock Hoi, ASEAN foreign ministers, ASEAN senior officials of the threepillars of the ASEAN Community, namely the ASEAN Political-SecurityCommunity (APSC), the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the ASEANSocio-Cultural Community (ASCC), among others.

Vietnam has made tremendous efforts in maintaining cooperation and implementing fully,effectively and substantially the ASEAN Year 2020 initiatives, the session heard, stressing those efforts have proved successful. 

Participants heard a report of the ASEAN Coordinating Council Working Group on Public HealthEmergencies (ACCWG-PHE) on ASEAN response to the COVID-19 outbreak,which was delivered by Nguyen Quoc Dung, Vietnam's Deputy Minister of ForeignAffairs, ASEAN SOM head, and Secretary General of the National ASEAN 2020Committee.

They praised the ACCWG-PHEGroup’s role in coordinating the COVID-19 response, saying they havecontributed to the joint efforts in the COVID-19 fight and overallpost-pandemic recovery.

Participants reviewedthe reports and proposals made by the group. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham BinhMinh urged the group to actively implement the initiatives and agreements, thussubmitting reports to the 37 ASEAN Summit slated for November this year.

AMM 53 is one of thehighlights of Vietnam’s ASEAN Chairmanship this year. The eventconsists of 20 meetings via video conference, joined by 27 delegations from four continents of different time zones. They include the 21st ASEAN 3 ForeignMinisters’ Meeting, the 10th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, andthe 27th ASEAN Regional Forum./.

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