Vietnam to Do Utmost to Facilitate Best Outcome of ASEAN Conferences

In capacity of the Chairman of ASEAN Standing Committee and the host country, Vietnam will do its utmost to facilitate the best possible outcome of the ASEAN conferences, said Vice Minister of Vietnamese Foreign Ministry Le Cong Phung here Thursday at a press conference.

The 34th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, ASEAN+3 Foreign Ministers' Meeting (ASEAN+China, Japan and Republic of Korea), the 8th ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting and Post Ministerial Conferences between Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its 10 dialogue partners of PMCs+10 and ASEAN and each of the dialogue partners of PMCs+1 will be held in Hanoi from July 23-28, this year , Phung revealed.

The conferences will be followed by the Ministerial Meeting on Mekong-Ganga Cooperation including six relevant countries of the two rivers, he added.

The conferences have great significance as they are held at the historic time when ASEAN enters in the 21st century with great deal of opportunities and challenges, Phung said.

In that context, the main theme of the activities and conferences are an ASEAN of stability, solidarity, integration and cooperation, he emphasized.

He also announced that the agenda of the conferences will focus on most stressing and practical issues for ASEAN and the Asia Pacific.

The conferences are expected to adopt a number of important documents. The documents are the Hanoi Declaration on narrowing the development gap for ASEAN closer integration, the 34th AMM Joint Communique' and the 8th ARF Chairman Statement, Phung noted.

The conferences will also create favorable opportunities for the conducts of exchanges and meetings between ASEAN and its dialogue partner countries in a bid to further foster ASEAN cooperation with its dialogue partners, especially with three Northeast Asian countries namely China, Japan and Republic of Korea, United States, European Union, Russia, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).






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