The ASEAN Future Forum (AFF) demonstrates Vietnam’s growing role and standing in promoting a more synergised and proactively connected ASEAN, said Professor Vu Minh Khuong of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung put forward three key proposals for ASEAN as the bloc faces an increasingly insecure and uncertain strategic environment while addressing the retreat session of the 48th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, the Philippines, on May 8.
Vietnam will send out important messages about ASEAN and the future of the bloc at the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and related meetings in Vientiane from October 8-11, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet has said.