JUNE, 2003 A grouping of ASEAN’s most prominent businessmen convened in Bangkok, Thailand on May 31 for the first working meeting of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (A-BAC). The ASEAN Heads of Government (ASEAN Leaders) established ABAC as the primary vehicle for private sector feedback and guidance to boost their efforts towards creating an integrated [...]
The Fifth ASEAN- India Senior Officials Meeting was held in New Delhi on 20 May 2003. The Meeting was Co-chaired by Shri Kanwal Sibal, Foreign Secretary, and H. E. Dato’ Ahmad Fuzi Abdul Razak, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia. The Meeting was also attended by Haji Mohamad Hamid bin Haji Mohamad Jafaar, Deputy [...]
Your Excellencies, Dato Fuzi Ahmad, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Mr. Ong Keng Yong, Secretary General of ASEAN Mr. Bounkeut Sangsomsak, Deputy Foreign Minister of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Heads of ASEAN Delegations, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1. On the occasion of the fifth India-ASEAN SOM, I extend to you a warm [...]
Thank you Your Excellency Mr. Kanwal Sibal, Mr. Co-Chairman, Allow me at the outset, on behalf of my ASEAN colleagues, the ASEAN delegations and on my own behalf to express our sincere gratitude for the warm welcome and hospitality and for the excellent arrangements made for our meeting. My ASEAN colleagues and I are delighted [...]
1. ASEAN Labour Ministers and their counterparts from the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea convened an ASEAN+3 Labour Ministers Meeting in Mataram, Indonesia, on 9 May 2003, back-to-back with the 17th ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting. The ASEAN+3 Labour Ministers Meeting was preceded by an ASEAN+3 Senior Labour Officials Meeting on [...]
1. The Seventeenth ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting was convened from 8 to 9 May 2003 in Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia, preceded by the 2nd Senior Labour Officials Meeting held from 5 to 6 May 2003. 2. The Meeting was officially opened by Her Excellency Megawati Soekarnoputri, President of the Republic of Indonesia. In her Keynote Speech, [...]