Vietnamese Ambassador to Venezuela Le Viet Duyen joins a webinar from Caracas. (Photo: VNA)The event also saw the presence of Chargé d'Affaires adinterim of Malaysia Mohd Raizul Zulkiffli.
Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Ambassador Le Viet Duyen reviewed outstanding activities of ASEAN and ACC over the last year and briefedabout the success of the 13th National Congress of the CommunistParty of Vietnam (CPV).
The embassies of Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, the onlythree embassies of ASEAN member states in Venezuela, have shown solidarity, sharedinformation and enthusiastically engaged in joint activities in Caracas, Duyensaid.
In the face of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in LatinAmerica, the ACC, under Vietnam’s chairmanship, organised a number of meaningfulevents, strengthened ASEAN unity, and heightened ASEAN position in Venezuela in2020, he noted, citing the hosting of ASEAN Family Day, donation of facemasksto the Foreign Ministry of Venezuela to aid local COVID-19 response, floraltribute paying to Simón Bolivar, a leader in Latin America’s independencemovement, at the National Pantheon of Venezuela - a final resting place of national heroes,and the joining of the 3rd ASEAN Day hosted by Venezuela asexamples.
Indonesian Ambassador Mulyono, for his part, expressed his honour to take over the ACCChairmanship. He vowed to bolster solidarity among the ASEAN embassies in Caracas and tighten relations between ASEAN and Venezuela through more activities inhis term.
On this occasion, the ACC discussed and adopted its agendafor 2021 focusing on promoting ASEAN cultures in the time of COVID-19. A seriesof events are scheduled, including cultural, cuisine and sports exchanges,ASEAN Family Day, a book fair and a ASEAN film week./.
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