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| AMM-56: Minister Bui Thanh Son and Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin co-chaired the Foreign Ministers' Meeting. ASEAN-Korea. (Photo: Tuan Anh) |
At the Conferences, the Ministers expressed their joy at the good progress in relations with partners, and many positive results achieved in almost all fields.
The parties actively exploit new potentials and cooperation opportunities, contributing to making the relationship increasingly deeper, more substantial and more effective.
The partners affirmed their respect for ASEAN, support for ASEAN solidarity, unity and centrality, and commitment to assist ASEAN in building the Community, and jointly build an open, inclusive, transparent regional structure that operates based on international law.
Minister Bui Thanh Son and Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin co-chaired the ASEAN-Korea Foreign Ministers' Meeting . Speaking on behalf of ASEAN, Minister Bui Thanh Son reviewed the results of cooperation achieved in all areas of security, economy, culture-society and people-to-people exchange.
The Minister suggested that the two sides strengthen cooperation to ensure peace and stability, especially in responding to non-traditional security challenges, deepen economic cooperation for prosperity and promote cooperation for the people, towards a sustainable future.
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| Ministers attending the Foreign Ministers' Conference ASEAN-Korea. (Photo: Tuan Anh) |
On this occasion, the Minister announced that Vietnam will organize ASEAN-Korea Day later this year in Vietnam, contributing to further promoting bilateral relations.
ASEAN welcomed the Republic of Korea’s announcement of the proposal to establish an ASEAN-ROK comprehensive strategic partnership and highly appreciated the ASEAN-ROK Solidarity Initiative. The Republic of Korea said it is implementing its commitment to double its contribution to the ASEAN-ROK Cooperation Fund from US$16 million in 2022 to US$32 million by 2027, and to allocate over US$200 million for joint cooperation projects.
The Ministers highlighted the significance of the 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Japan relations and welcomed the proposal to establish a comprehensive strategic partnership with ASEAN on this occasion. The two sides agreed to deepen cooperation in all areas, especially trade, investment, supply chain stability, connectivity, high-quality infrastructure development, and expand cooperation to new potential areas such as innovation, climate change response, and green growth.
ASEAN highly appreciated Japan's provision of a financial loan of 3.34 billion USD to support post-pandemic recovery efforts and an additional contribution of 100 million USD to the ASEAN-Japan Integration Fund.
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| Overview of the ASEAN-Japan Foreign Ministers' Meeting. (Photo: Tuan Anh) |
Countries welcomed the success of the ASEAN-EU Commemorative Summit in December 2022, which has oriented and created momentum for new developments in the future.
The two sides agreed to promote cooperation, discuss economic and trade issues and exploit other potential areas such as digital economy, green technology, green services, while affirming their orientation towards the long-term goal of the ASEAN-EU Free Trade Agreement.
ASEAN welcomes the EU’s Team Europe investment package worth around €10 billion until 2027, supporting integration, capacity building and sustainable development efforts in the region.
At the ASEAN+ 3 Conference (with China, Japan and South Korea), the Ministers emphasized the need to maintain and promote ASEAN+3's inherent strengths such as economic, trade, financial cooperation, disease prevention and response.
The Ministers also said that it is necessary to expand new cooperation priorities to effectively address the difficulties and challenges facing the region.
Accordingly, the countries agreed to strengthen existing economic and financial stability mechanisms, promote trade and investment exchanges, step up cooperation to ensure food security and sustainable agriculture, and effectively implement the ASEAN+3 Emergency Rice Reserve Fund.
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| ASEAN Ministers attending the Conference ASEAN+3 (with China, Japan and South Korea). (Photo: Tuan Anh) |
Regarding ASEAN- UK , the Ministers highly appreciated the newly established ASEAN-UK dialogue relationship. The countries agreed to effectively implement the Action Plan 2022-2026, while emphasizing the need to coordinate to deepen economic, trade and investment relations towards inclusive growth.
ASEAN highly appreciates the UK's proposal of key cooperation programs worth 113 million pounds over the next 5 years, supporting regional economic integration, health, education, women, peace, security, climate change adaptation, etc.
With ASEAN- Canada , the countries committed to coordinate in implementing the Joint Statement of the Leaders commemorating the 45th anniversary of relations, towards establishing the ASEAN-Canada strategic partnership.
ASEAN welcomed Canada's commitment to support the Community building process, the establishment of a C$13.1 million Trust Fund, and the provision of training scholarships to ASEAN.
The Ministers stressed the need for both sides to coordinate effectively in exploiting cooperation opportunities, developing the relationship more dynamically and substantially.
Reviewing and orienting ASEAN relations with partners, Minister Bui Thanh Son welcomed the continued effective implementation of programs and action plans between ASEAN and partners, with many practical proposals and initiatives in line with the common interests of the countries.
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| Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son attends the Conferences. (Photo: Tuan Anh) |
The Minister proposed to coordinate to promote inclusive recovery efforts, promote growth momentum, prioritize trade cooperation, investment, connectivity, human resource training, innovation, energy transition, food security, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development.
Sharing the opinions of the countries, Minister Bui Thanh Son highly appreciated the commitment of the partners to support ASEAN's leading role in efforts to promote dialogue, cooperation and build trust in the region.
The Minister asked partners to support ASEAN's common stance on the East Sea, promote the significance of the DOC, and support ASEAN and China to soon reach an effective and substantive COC in accordance with international law, including the 1982 UNCLOS, striving to build the East Sea into a sea of peace, cooperation and sustainable development.
| Tomorrow morning, July 14, according to the program, ASEAN Foreign Ministers and partners will have a meeting with Indonesian President Jokowi Widodo; then, they will attend the East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers Meeting, including ASEAN countries and partners China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, India, Russia and the United States. |
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