Regional senior officials have reviewed final preparations for the 43rdASEAN Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and related ministerial meetingsbetween the bloc and its partners to take place in Hanoi from July19-23.
The three-day ASEAN senior officials’ meeting (SOM)discussed and agreed on the draft programme, agendas and a list ofdocuments to be approved at the meetings, Pham Quang Vinh, head ofVietnam’s SOM delegation, told reporters at the end of the meeting inHanoi on July 18.
ASEAN ministerial meetings will take place onJuly 19-20, meetings between ASEAN and its partners on July 21-22, andthe 17 th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting on July 23.
PrimeMinister Nguyen Tan Dung will open the 43rd AMM on the morning of July20. A closing ceremony will be held on July 23 right after the 17 thARF meeting. Then, Deputy Prime Minister and ASEAN Chairman Pham GiaKhiem will host a news conference on the meetings’ outcomes.
Ministersare expected to discuss accelerating the implementation of the roadmapof building the Community and ASEAN Charter, the ASEAN connectivity andlinks, including efforts to narrow the development gap within the bloc.
Theywill focus their discussions on expanding and deepening relationsbetween the bloc and its partners, strengthening and maintaining theASEAN key role in the region, and enhancing cooperation in response tothe emerging challenges of economic recovery and sustainabledevelopment, climate change, natural disasters, diseases, as well asmeasures to build trust, promote peace, stability and cooperation in theregion.
Related ministerial meetings will be a decisive step forthe success of summits to be held later this year, including the 17 thASEAN Summit, ASEAN+3, East Asian Summit (EAS) and summits betweenASEAN and partners – China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India,Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the United Nations.
Ministersare expected to adopt plans of action for the new period with severalpartners.
Regarding documents, senior officials have basicallycompleted draft documents to submit to the AMM and are continuing towork on the AMM joint communique, the ARF Chairman’s statement and aChairman statement of related ministerial meetings and partners andASEAN+3. They will also prepare the Hanoi action plan to carry outthe ARF vision statement to 2020, and the third protocol amending theregion’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC).
Also on the sameday, a meeting of the executive committee on Southeast AsianNuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ) took place./.
The three-day ASEAN senior officials’ meeting (SOM)discussed and agreed on the draft programme, agendas and a list ofdocuments to be approved at the meetings, Pham Quang Vinh, head ofVietnam’s SOM delegation, told reporters at the end of the meeting inHanoi on July 18.
ASEAN ministerial meetings will take place onJuly 19-20, meetings between ASEAN and its partners on July 21-22, andthe 17 th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting on July 23.
PrimeMinister Nguyen Tan Dung will open the 43rd AMM on the morning of July20. A closing ceremony will be held on July 23 right after the 17 thARF meeting. Then, Deputy Prime Minister and ASEAN Chairman Pham GiaKhiem will host a news conference on the meetings’ outcomes.
Ministersare expected to discuss accelerating the implementation of the roadmapof building the Community and ASEAN Charter, the ASEAN connectivity andlinks, including efforts to narrow the development gap within the bloc.
Theywill focus their discussions on expanding and deepening relationsbetween the bloc and its partners, strengthening and maintaining theASEAN key role in the region, and enhancing cooperation in response tothe emerging challenges of economic recovery and sustainabledevelopment, climate change, natural disasters, diseases, as well asmeasures to build trust, promote peace, stability and cooperation in theregion.
Related ministerial meetings will be a decisive step forthe success of summits to be held later this year, including the 17 thASEAN Summit, ASEAN+3, East Asian Summit (EAS) and summits betweenASEAN and partners – China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India,Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the United Nations.
Ministersare expected to adopt plans of action for the new period with severalpartners.
Regarding documents, senior officials have basicallycompleted draft documents to submit to the AMM and are continuing towork on the AMM joint communique, the ARF Chairman’s statement and aChairman statement of related ministerial meetings and partners andASEAN+3. They will also prepare the Hanoi action plan to carry outthe ARF vision statement to 2020, and the third protocol amending theregion’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC).
Also on the sameday, a meeting of the executive committee on Southeast AsianNuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ) took place./.
