Antara News, Friday, January 15, 2010 02:34 WIB
Hanoi (ANTARA News/Itar-Tass-OANA) - A meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened in the Vietnamese city of Danang on Thursday.
A session of the ASEAN Coordinating Committee and the Association`s Public Council for Political and Security Affairs is to be also held within the framework of the ministerial meeting.
These consultations, which have officially ushered in a year of Vietnam`s presidency at the ASEAN, will focus on a discussion of themes aimed at giving greater scope to interaction within the scope of the Association with a view to maintaining peace and stability in the region.
The Ministers are also to discuss their countries` preparations for an ASEAN summit that is to be held in Hanoi at the end of this year under the motto "ASEAN Community: From Vision to Action".
As has been stated by Vietnam`s Deputy Foreign Minister Dao Viet Trung, General Secretary of the National Committee for the Observance of the 2010 Year of ASEAN, Vietnam, while performing the functions of the Association`s presiding country, will devote paramount attention to the strengthening of solidarity and enhancement of interconnection among all ASEAN members.
Vietnam as ASEAN`s presiding country, will hold a series of ministerial meetings and two summits, including an ASEAN one, and arrange for their consultations with Dialogue Partner Countries, and hold a session of the Regional Security Forum.
The ASEAN brings together the following ten Southeast Asian countries: Brunei, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. Vietnam became an ASEAN member in 1995 and already performed the duties of presiding country in 1998.
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