On September 5, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh led the Vietnamese delegation to attend the plenary session of the 43rd ASEAN Summit at the Jakarta Convention Center, Indonesia.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh led the Vietnamese delegation to attend the plenary session of the 43rd ASEAN Summit at the Jakarta Convention Center, Indonesia.
At the conference, the leaders of the countries expressed their support for this year's cooperation theme "ASEAN at the heart of growth", showing a proactive, resilient and courageous ASEAN. Overcoming difficulties and challenges, the momentum of building the ASEAN Community has been maintained, continuing to mark new cooperation milestones in all three pillars of politics-security, economy and culture-society, creating the foundation and motivation for stronger development steps of ASEAN in the future.
The trends of the times require ASEAN to innovate in thinking, be creative in action, and be innovative in ideas in order to make the most of new economic growth drivers such as the digital economy, blue economy, green transformation, and sustainable development.
In that spirit, the Leaders discussed and acknowledged the ASEAN Community Vision 2045 with consistent orientations to build a Resilient, Dynamic, Creative and People-Centered ASEAN, establishing a strategic framework for stronger development and breakthrough of ASEAN in the next 20 years.
Conference scene.
At the plenary session, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shared his general assessment of a volatile year 2023. The world economy has shown more positive signs of recovery, but there are still many risks, growth is not sustainable, trade recovery is slow, and geopolitical instability is increasingly complex.
In that context, with the joint efforts and solidarity of member countries and the leadership of the Indonesian Chair, the ASEAN Community continues to develop steadily and firmly with an increasingly strong "stature", affirming its role as the center of growth.
ASEAN continues to be a bright spot in economic growth, the center of free trade agreement (FTA) networks and the center of important regional cooperation mechanisms such as ASEAN+1, ASEAN+3, East Asia Summit (EAS)...
According to the Prime Minister, the ASEAN community continues to develop steadily and firmly with an increasingly strong "stature", affirming its role as the center of growth.
To maintain "ASEAN's stature" and be the "center of growth", the Prime Minister emphasized the need to enhance ASEAN's self-reliance through promoting economic connectivity, expanding the intra-bloc market, and facilitating trade and investment flows.
Accordingly, the Prime Minister requested ASEAN countries to urgently remove bottlenecks and barriers in policies and institutions, maintain stability in the intra-bloc supply chain, and enhance the region's resilience to external impacts and challenges.
The Prime Minister also asked ASEAN Economic Ministers to resolutely direct the review, upgrading and negotiation of new FTAs between ASEAN and its partners, in order to create new development momentum for the regional economy.
ASEAN member countries must uphold the spirit of solidarity, independence, self-reliance and self-reliance.
The Prime Minister said that ASEAN needs to identify that ensuring peace and security in the region is first and foremost the responsibility and effort of ASEAN itself. To do so, ASEAN member countries must uphold the spirit of solidarity, independence, self-reliance and self-reliance; and this spirit must be demonstrated in both words and actions. Only then can ASEAN's role be truly promoted and receive practical respect from partners, especially major countries.
ASEAN welcomes partners to participate in regional cooperation, support ASEAN and respond to common challenges together with ASEAN. In the face of increasing friction and strategic competition among major countries, the Prime Minister especially emphasized that ASEAN needs to demonstrate steadfastness and solidarity so that partners respect ASEAN's central role, dialogue and cooperation in good faith, and comply with the principles and principles set forth by ASEAN mechanisms.
Aiming for an ASEAN with equal and sustainable development, the Prime Minister reaffirmed the core spirit of ASEAN with "people as the center, the goal and the driving force of the Community building process" to continue narrowing the development gap within ASEAN, especially in remote and isolated areas and sub-regions. The Prime Minister highly appreciated the initiatives of the Indonesian Chair to promote the digital economy, blue economy, food security, building an electric vehicle ecosystem and sustainable self-reliance, considering these as proactive and creative steps of ASEAN to serve the practical interests of the people.
In that spirit, the Prime Minister announced that Vietnam will host the ASEAN Future Forum on rapid, sustainable, people-centered development, to complement ASEAN's official forums and mechanisms, creating opportunities for broad exchange of ideas and initiatives for regional cooperation, contributing to building a resilient and sustainable ASEAN Community.
On this occasion, the Leaders adopted many important documents such as the Declaration on Inclusive Development for Persons with Disabilities, Family Development and Gender Equality, Strengthening Food Security, Preschool Care and Education, Framework on the ASEAN Public Health Emergency Coordination System, etc., contributing to strengthening efforts to build a people-oriented and people-centered Community.
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