Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivers a speech at the Special ASEAN Plus Three Summit on COVID-19. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The 36th ASEAN Summit will be held online on June 26, theVietnamese Foreign Ministry said on June 21.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will preside over the opening, plenary andspecial sessions on women’s empowerment in digital age. He will also chair dialoguesbetween ASEAN leaders and the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), ASEANyouth representatives and ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC).
Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will represent Vietnamto deliver a speech at the special session on women’s empowerment in digitalage, and NA Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong, head of the Vietnamese delegationto AIPA, will attend the dialogue between ASEAN leaders and AIPA.
Earlier, a series of preparatory meetings will take place from June 22-24.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh will chair the informalASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting, 26th meeting of the ASEAN CoordinatingCouncil and 21st meeting of the ASEAN Political-Security Community Council.
Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh will chair the ministerial meetingof participating countries in negotiations of the Regional ComprehensiveEconomic Partnership (RCEP), while Minister of Labour, War Invalids and SocialAffairs Dao Ngoc Dung will chair the 23rd meeting of the ASEAN Cultural-SocialCommunity Council./.
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