Jakarta – The 37 th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit took place on Thursday through videoconference versus the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, set up to preside over the opening ceremony, will be joined online by leaders from the other ASEAN member states, according to a statement released on the official website of the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Thursday.
” Vietnam’s chairmanship of ASEAN this year has actually been exemplary. In spite of having to deal with its domestic COVID-19 difficulties and natural disasters, Vietnam has offered able leadership in keeping the area cohesive and responsive to these obstacles, putting ASEAN Centrality and the people’s interest at the core,” Secretary-General of ASEAN Lim Jock Hoi stated.
High on the 37 th ASEAN Summit agenda is the leaders’ conversation and approval of the ASEAN Comprehensive Healing Structure and its Application Strategy that will serve as the whole-of-community exit technique to recover and construct back much better from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additional conversations will be hung on the ASEAN Travel Corridor Plan that will facilitate the safe reopening of important business travel in the area.
As the ASEAN Chair, Prime Minister Phuc is also anticipated to reveal the recipient of the ASEAN Reward 2020.
Launched in 2018, the ASEAN Reward aims to recognize inspiring achievements and contributions of an individual or organization that cultivates the ASEAN identity, promotes the ASEAN spirit, and champs the ASEAN method.
The ASEAN leaders will likewise meet their equivalents from ASEAN’s discussion partners throughout a series of ASEAN Plus One tops.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ASEAN leaders, under Vietnam’s Chairmanship, had earlier met over 3 cyber summits in 2020: the Special ASEAN Top and Special ASEAN Plus 3 Summit on April 14 and the 36 th ASEAN Summit on June 26.
Brunei Darussalam will assume the ASEAN Chairmanship for 2021.
ASEAN was founded in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 8, 1967, when the five charter member– Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand– signed the ASEAN Statement.
Ever since, the ASEAN has actually expanded and bigger its subscription with the addition of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
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