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Vietnam ready for AMM-43, related ministerial meetings |
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Monday, 19 July 2010 |
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 Regional senior officials have reviewed final preparations for the 43rd
ASEAN Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and related ministerial meetings
between the bloc and its partners to take place in Hanoi from July
19-23.
The three-day ASEAN senior officials’ meeting (SOM)
discussed and agreed on the draft programme, agendas and a list of
documents to be approved at the meetings, Pham Quang Vinh, head of
Vietnam’s SOM delegation, told reporters at the end of the meeting in
Hanoi on July 18.
ASEAN ministerial meetings will take place on
July 19-20, meetings between ASEAN and its partners on July 21-22, and
the 17 th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting on July 23.
Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will open the 43rd AMM on the morning of July
20. A closing ceremony will be held on July 23 right after the 17 th
ARF meeting. Then, Deputy Prime Minister and ASEAN Chairman Pham Gia
Khiem will host a news conference on the meetings’ outcomes.
Ministers
are expected to discuss accelerating the implementation of the roadmap
of building the Community and ASEAN Charter, the ASEAN connectivity and
links, including efforts to narrow the development gap within the bloc.
They
will focus their discussions on expanding and deepening relations
between the bloc and its partners, strengthening and maintaining the
ASEAN key role in the region, and enhancing cooperation in response to
the emerging challenges of economic recovery and sustainable
development, climate change, natural disasters, diseases, as well as
measures to build trust, promote peace, stability and cooperation in the
region.
Related ministerial meetings will be a decisive step for
the success of summits to be held later this year, including the 17 th
ASEAN Summit, ASEAN+3, East Asian Summit (EAS) and summits between
ASEAN and partners – China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India,
Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the United Nations.
Ministers
are expected to adopt plans of action for the new period with several
partners.
Regarding documents, senior officials have basically
completed draft documents to submit to the AMM and are continuing to
work on the AMM joint communique, the ARF Chairman’s statement and a
Chairman statement of related ministerial meetings and partners and
ASEAN+3. They will also prepare the Hanoi action plan to carry out
the ARF vision statement to 2020, and the third protocol amending the
region’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC).
Also on the same
day, a meeting of the executive committee on Southeast Asian
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ) took place./.
(Source: VN+)
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