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Deputy FM co-chairs 15th East Asia Forum

Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of the Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) ASEAN Vietnam, has co-chaired the 15th East Asia Forum in the Chinese province of Hunan from June 29 – July 1.
Deputy FM co-chairs 15th East Asia Forum ảnh 1Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung (Source: VNA)
Beijing (VNA) – Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen QuocDung, head of the Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) ASEAN Vietnam, has co-chairedthe 15th East Asia Forum in the Chinese province of Hunan from June29 – July 1.

He delivered an opening remark, presided over the firstsession on reviewing and setting orientations to cooperation, and will make aclosing speech.

Dung said ASEAN 3 (China, Japan and the Republic of Korea) needsto strengthen operations and create a firm position in the regional integrationprocess to effectively tap existing regional connectivity initiatives such as Beltand Road, Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy, Partnership for QualityInfrastructure, and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

He underscored the importance of maintaining an environmentof peace and stability for development cooperation, fostering trust building, shapingan open, balanced, transparent and rules-based regional architecture.

Themed “20 years of ASEAN 3 cooperation: Towards the EastAsia Economic Community”, the event attracted nearly 60 delegates fromgovernmental agencies and scholars from 13 regional countries.

Participants shared view that over the past two decades,ASEAN 3 has reaped successes in the fields of economy, trade, finance,environment protection, narrowing development gaps, strengthening regionalconnectivity, and promoting cultural and people-to-people exchange.

The total annual trade in ASEAN 3 group is stable with morethan 700 billion USD, and China, Japan and Republic of Korea have poured inexcess of 30 billion USD into the bloc each year.

As part of the ASEAN 3 Working Plan for 2013-2017, 475projects have been underway. Member states are actively drafting the WorkingPlan for 2018-2022, which is scheduled for adoption at the ASEAN 3 Summit inNovember 2017.

Participating countries agreed to improve operationalefficiency of existing mechanisms, give priority to cooperation in stabilisingfinance, developing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, narrowingdevelopment gap, strengthening regional connectivity and integration whilecoping with emerging non-traditional security challenges such as terrorism,cyber security, population aging, poverty reduction, food and energy security,and epidemic prevention.-VNA
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