Keyword: "priorities"

Enhancing connectivity and resilience are key priorities of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2024, according to Kao Kim Hourn, said the bloc's Secretary-General.

Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob has laid out the key priorities for the rest of this government’s term at the opening of the second session of the 14th parliament on April 10.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will start negotiations with nuclear-weapon states in signing the Protocol to the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ Treaty), according to Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi of Indonesia - the country chairing the association this year.

Indonesia announced chairmanship priorities of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) at the meeting of the Senior Officials Committee for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOCA) Retreat on February 28.

Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), on February 6 stressed the necessity to devote national and international resources to peace, development and human.

Newly-appointed UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pauline Tamesis expressed her support for priorities that Vietnam promotes at the UN, during a meeting with Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, on August 23.

The first meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Committee was held in New York on January 10, focusing discussion on activities and priorities of ASEAN member states this year.

Domestic and international experts and scholars gathered at a workshop in Hanoi on May 8 to discuss priorities for Vietnam when the country takes the role of ASEAN Chair in 2020.

Developing renewable energy is one of the priorities of Vietnam to gradually reduce the dependence on traditional forms of power generation in order to protect the environment and promote sustainable development of the country and others in the region, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Cao Quoc Hung said at an international workshop in Hanoi on March 12.

Plans for developing the private sector in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) will be among priorities of the GMS Business Council (GMS BC) from 2018 to 2020, heard a panel discussion in the framework of the GMS Business Summit in Hanoi on March 30.

Vietnam has made significant contributions to the Asia-Pacific Economic (APEC) cooperation, especially with the country hosting APEC Year 2017, said Professor Go Ito from Japan’s Meiji University.

Delegates attending the APEC Senior Finance Officials’ Meeting (SFOM) in Ninh Binh voiced their support for the host country’s priorities in implementing the Finance Ministers’ Process.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his spouse, and a Vietnamese high-ranking delegation arrived in Hanoi on April 30 morning after participating in the 30th ASEAN Summit, which took place in Manila, the Philippines, from April 28-29.

Representatives from 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum have showed their support for priorities proposed by Vietnam for APEC Year 2017 while attending a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 20.

APEC senior officials gathered at an informal meeting in Hanoi on December 9 to discuss priorities for APEC 2017.

Member economies from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) highly valued Vietnam’s theme and priorities for the APEC Year in 2017 at the 24th APEC Summit in Peru.

ASEAN will focus on food and agriculture, trade facilitation, development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMES), education, health and social welfares, to narrow development gaps in the bloc.

An inter-ministerial meeting took place in Hanoi on January 8, to review the results of Vietnam’s ASEAN cooperation in 2015 and define priorities for 2016.

The 15th ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology (IT) Ministers’ Meeting (TELEMIN) will be held in the central city of Dang Nang on November 26-27.