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India to host special meeting of India-ASEAN Foreign Ministers

India will host a special meeting of foreign ministers of India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (SAIFMM) on June 16 and 17 to mark the 30th anniversary of India-ASEAN dialogue relations and the 10th year of the two sides’ strategic partnership.
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New Delhi (VNA) – India will host a special meeting of foreignministers of India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (SAIFMM) on June 16 and 17 to mark the 30thanniversary of India-ASEAN dialogue relations and the 10th year ofthe two sides’ strategic partnership.

According to the Indian Foreign Ministry, themeeting will be co-chaired by India’s Minister of External Affairs Jaishankarand his Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan.

The year 2022 has been designated as the ASEAN-Indiafriendship year.

India and ASEAN started their dialogue relations with the establishment ofa sectoral partnership in 1992, which was elevated to a full dialoguepartnership in December 1995, a summit-level partnership in 2002, and astrategic partnership in 2012.

ASEAN is central to India’s Act East policyand its vision for the wider Indo-Pacific, the external affairs ministry said.

While the ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is an annual eventhosted by the ASEAN Chair, the SAIFMM will bethe first such event to be hosted by India, and will be preceded by the ASEAN-Indiasenior officials meeting on June 15./.
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