Mexico City (VNA) – The ASEAN Committee in MexicoCity (ACMC) held a ceremony on August 6 marking the 54th founding anniversaryof the bloc (August 8).
Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Hoanh Nam, ACMC’s rotating Chair, reviewedachievements made by ASEAN over the past half century to become a strong andunited community with comprehensive cooperation in all fields, making important contributions to maintaining peace,stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.
Ambassador Nguyen Hoanh Nam speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
Nam affirmed that theformation of the ASEAN Community in 2015 with political-security, economic andsocio-cultural pillars has brought about important and practical benefits toeach member state and further improved ASEAN’s position and central role in theregion.
ASEAN needs to promote ties with Mexico invarious areas, especially economy, trade, investment, tourism and culture,as well as step up partnership with the Pacific Alliance (comprising Mexico, Chile,Colombia and Peru) via Mexico.
Ambassadors at the event (Photo: VNA)
On the occasion, ASEAN ambassadors to Mexico reviewedthe past activities and outlined action plans for the remaining months of thisyear. They vowed to further consolidate intra-bloc solidarity and reinforce tradewith Mexico.
Statistics by the MexicanSecretariat of Economy showed that trade between Mexico and Malaysia,Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam grew by over 10 percentannually on average and surpassed 28 billion USD in 2020./.
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The Thai Government is being urged to increase the proportion of renewable power generation to more than the target of 50% set in the power development plan (PDP).
The Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) of Indonesia on April 21 lifted its tsunami advisory issued previously following the eruption of Mount Ruang in Sitaro district of North Sulawesi province.
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The 72nd meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC) and related meetings are being held by the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of Vietnam in the central city of Da Nang on April 22-26.
Enhancing regional food security and tackling the pressing challenges of climate change will be key agendas defining Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship in 2025, Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat (lower house) Johari Abdul told the press on April 19.
At the event (Photo: VNA) 
Ambassador Nguyen Hoanh Nam speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) 
Ambassadors at the event (Photo: VNA) 
