The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) opens in Singapore on April 27. (Photo: VNA)Singapore (VNA) – The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’Meeting (AMM) opened in Singapore on April 27 ahead of the 32nd ASEAN Summit.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh isleading the Vietnamese delegation to the event.
The AMM will discuss progress in implementing the region’skey initiatives and review the process of building the ASEAN Community alongwith future orientation for the work.
Ministers will also look at the pace of blueprints oncarrying out the ASEAN Community Vision to 2025 and adopt the agenda of the 32nd ASEAN Summit along with the list of documents to be submitted to the bloc’sleaders.
Ministers will debate ASEAN priorities under theSingaporean-sponsored theme of Resilient and Innovative, including an idea onbuilding a network of smart cities in the region.
Relevant regional and international issues of commonconcern, including the East Sea, new developments on the Korean peninsula, terrorismand extremism, maritime security and some other non-conventional security matters,are also on the AMM’s agenda.
Also on April 27, several important events will take place,namely the 17th ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) Councilmeeting and the 21st ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) meeting.
To ensure safety for the ASEAN Summit and related meetings,host Singapore has tightened security around all meeting venues and the country’sentry gates.
Singapore is the Chair of ASEAN in 2018. The bloc groups 10 Southeast Asian nations, which are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. -VNA
