Webinar discusses ASEAN’s braving storm in COVID-19 crisis
Singapore (VNA) – The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute of
Singapore held the annual 36th round-table webinar themed “Braving
the Storms: ASEAN in Crisis Mode”, with the support of the Konrad Adenauer
Stiftung Foundation of Germany on October 12.
In his opening speech, Director of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Choi Shing Kwok said the COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges
and disruptions in the region. Regional countries have issued post-pandemic
recovery plans while strengthening connectivity to step up regional recovery in
the future.
Participants at the event discussed ways to promote fairer and more
inclusive economic recovery, and explored the possibility of tapping the
COVID-19 crisis to build a sustainable future.
They also looked into regional political and security landscape such
as Myanmar’s challenges to solidarity and ASEAN’s central role and position in
regional order.
The annual event provides a platform for leading experts, scholars
and commentators in the region to consider key issues and challenges to ASEAN
as a region and an institution.
The event will last till October 13. It is the second year it
has been held virtually./.