The Foreign Ministers from the ten ASEAN member countries convened their first Retreat in 2016 in Vientiane, Laos, on February 27 with the attendance of ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Don Pramudwinai has visited the ASEAN Secretariat, seeking to carry out the next steps after the launch of the ASEAN Community at the end of last year.
Hungary on February 5 expressed its strong interest to forge closer ties with the Southeast Asian region and said it recognised the immense potential of the ASEAN Community.
Laos officially took over the chairmanship of ASEAN’s Committee of Permanent Representative (CPR) in 2016 from Malaysia at a ceremony in Jakarta, Indonesia on January 8.
Its summits and ministerial meetings get a lot of media coverage, but ASEAN’s engagement with its stakeholders, partners and constituencies goes far beyond official venues.
It is the “unity in diversity” that forms the common identity of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh in an interview with Vietnam News Agency
Malaysia has been successful in turning a new chapter in regional integration in 2015, the year it served as the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Narrowing the development gaps within and between the ASEAN member states is one of the top and long-term priorities of the association to build a dynamic, connective, and integrative bloc.
ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh and Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj explored areas of cooperation during their meeting in New Delhi on December 11.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) hopes to forge ties with the ASEAN member states and ASEAN Secretariat, said SCO Secretary-General Dmitry Mezentsev.
ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh appreciated Japan’s significant support to the association over a couple of years, especially in the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).
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.
Vietnamese Ambassador to the Netherlands Nguyen Van Doan has been elected as the first rotating President of the ASEAN Committee in The Hague (ACTH), which was put into operation recently.
The 2015 ASEAN joint statement on climate change was adopted by participants of the 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment, which wrapped up on October 29 in Hanoi.
Vongthep Arthakaivalvatee, a former diplomat and criminal justice expert from Thailand, took his oath on October 12 as the new Deputy Secretary-General for ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) supports efforts to maintain peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula, said ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh.