ASEAN information ministers meet in Laos
Senior officials from 10 ASEAN
countries, the bloc’s dialogue partners and ASEAN Secretariat are
gathering in Vientiane for the 10th meeting of ASEAN Ministers
Responsible for Information.
Senior officials from 10 ASEAN
countries, the bloc’s dialogue partners and ASEAN Secretariat are
gathering in Vientiane, Laos, for the 10th meeting of ASEAN Ministers
Responsible for Information (AMRI) that opened on Nov. 5.
Lao Minister of Information and Culture Mounkeo Oraboun opened the meeting, highlighting the importance of the 10th AMRI and the 10th AMRI+3 meetings, and the implementation of cooperation programmes set at the previous meeting in Indonesia two years ago.
He stressed his country’s view that information cooperation among ASEAN members and between ASEAN and its three partners – China, Japan and the Republic of Korea has to be based on the principle of building the ASEAN Community upon three main pillars – a sustainable political, economic and the socio-cultural community.
Speaking at the meeting, Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith stressed solutions to increase future cooperation in information among ASEAN members as well as between the bloc and its three partners.
According to the Deputy PM, ASEAN should focus on building its own information network. The ASEAN Secretariat must be a centre for news and information and each member nation should develop its own ASEAN TV and radio programmes and increase daily programmes covering ASEAN activities in order to help people in each regional country understand the land, people and socio-economic lives of the other nations in the ASEAN community as well as introduce the community to the world.
He emphasized the importance of cooperation in socio-economics, including news and information, between the bloc and its three partners and proposed to expand cooperative relations in this regard.
Themed “Enhancing media cooperation in building an ASEAN Community”, the AMRI meeting demonstrates the important role of information within the ASEAN Community, contributing to translating the ASEAN charter into reality.
The meeting will last until Nov. 7. Also, the AMRI+3 meeting will take place during that time./.
Lao Minister of Information and Culture Mounkeo Oraboun opened the meeting, highlighting the importance of the 10th AMRI and the 10th AMRI+3 meetings, and the implementation of cooperation programmes set at the previous meeting in Indonesia two years ago.
He stressed his country’s view that information cooperation among ASEAN members and between ASEAN and its three partners – China, Japan and the Republic of Korea has to be based on the principle of building the ASEAN Community upon three main pillars – a sustainable political, economic and the socio-cultural community.
Speaking at the meeting, Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith stressed solutions to increase future cooperation in information among ASEAN members as well as between the bloc and its three partners.
According to the Deputy PM, ASEAN should focus on building its own information network. The ASEAN Secretariat must be a centre for news and information and each member nation should develop its own ASEAN TV and radio programmes and increase daily programmes covering ASEAN activities in order to help people in each regional country understand the land, people and socio-economic lives of the other nations in the ASEAN community as well as introduce the community to the world.
He emphasized the importance of cooperation in socio-economics, including news and information, between the bloc and its three partners and proposed to expand cooperative relations in this regard.
Themed “Enhancing media cooperation in building an ASEAN Community”, the AMRI meeting demonstrates the important role of information within the ASEAN Community, contributing to translating the ASEAN charter into reality.
The meeting will last until Nov. 7. Also, the AMRI+3 meeting will take place during that time./.
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