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ASEAN economic ministers hold online troika dialogue with Switzerland

The ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Troika Open-ended Dialogue with Switzerland Trade Minister was held online on November 10 within the framework of the 37th ASEAN Summit and related meetings.
ASEAN economic ministers hold online troika dialogue with Switzerland ảnh 1Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Troika Open-ended Dialogue withSwitzerland Trade Minister was held online on November 10 within the frameworkof the 37th ASEAN Summit and related meetings.

Vietnamese Ministerof Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and Swiss Minister of Economic Affairs, Education and Research Guy Parmelinco-chaired the event.

During the dialogue,the sides expressed their concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on the growth andeconomic development, and stressed the need to unite and closely coordinatewith each other in the pandemic combat and post-pandemic economic recovery.

They committed tostepping up cooperation to maintain and enhance economic ties between ASEAN andSwitzerland, make greater efforts to ease the impacts of the pandemic on the relevanteconomies, intensify the resilience and flexibility of the economies, andcontinue to pursue an open and transparent economic policy.

The sides alsopledged to support and pursue the purpose of free trade on the basis of theWTO’s multilateral trade system, and agreed to join hands to reap practicaloutcomes.

The 37th ASEAN Summitand related meetings, slated for November 12-15, will feature 20 activities atthe highest level, including the 37th ASEAN Summit; ASEAN+1 summits with China, Japan,the Republic of Korea, India, the US, the UN, and Australia; the 15th East AsiaSummit (EAS); and the 4th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) summit;among others.

During the summitswith partners, leaders will focus on building the ASEAN Community, maintainingintra-bloc cooperation momentum, expanding and deepening relations betweenASEAN and partners, promoting the grouping’s centrality, raising itsinternational position, ensuring COVID-19 prevention and control, anddiscussing regional and international issues of shared concern.

More than 80documents, including proposals by Vietnam, are set to be approved on thisoccasion, marking the highest number to date.

Vietnam is expectedto symbolically hand over the ASEAN Chairmanship to Brunei at the closingceremony on November 15./.
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