JAKARTA (Mar 20) – New strategies are needed to deal with youth issues in a multi-sectoral way in order to find sustainable solutions to the problems brought about by unemployment, according to participants at a video conference today co-organized by the ASEAN Secretariat and the World Bank Institute in Washington D.C. The video conference on [...]
After a close consultation of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers at their Informal Meeting in Karambunei, Malaysia, H.E. Mr. Hor Namhong, Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee (ASC), issues the following statement: The ASEAN Foreign Ministers had a constructive exchange of views on [...]
After a close consultation of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers at their Informal Meeting in Karambunai, Malaysia, H.E. Hor Namhong, Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee (ASC) issued the following statement: The ASEAN Foreign Ministers had extensive discussion and a useful exchange of [...]
The ASEAN-China, Japan and Korea Tourism Ministers’ Retreat was convened in Bali, Indonesia on 15 March 2003. H.E. Mr. Somphong Mongkhonvilay, Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Lao PDR chaired the Meeting. The Ministers and relevant Representatives reiterated their commitment to work in close partnership to build travellers’ confidence within and into ASEAN, which among [...]
SIEM REAP (Mar 5) – Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen said ASEAN nations have to establish a more comprehensive framework and mechanism for constructive cooperation in environmental conservation. “We need to work more closely to ensure synergies, better resource mobilization, improved coordination and cooperation in order to protect our environment and at the same time [...]
Siem Reap (Mar 4, 2003) - ASEAN Ministers responsible for environment met today and resolved to continue their efforts to tackle comprehensively, and on a concerted and collaborative basis, the transboundary haze pollution problem that plagued ASEAN periodically in recent years. The Ministers have agreed to work towards ensuring that the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary [...]