Washington D.C., 30 September 2011 With an aim of leveraging more than US$13 billion in infrastructure financing, ASEAN Finance Ministers, the President of Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Secretary-General of ASEAN signed the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund (AIF) Shareholder Agreement over the weekend in Washington, D.C. Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN, calls the AIF "an [...]
New York, USA, 28 September 2011 The ASEAN-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Ministerial Meeting was held in New York on Monday, on the sidelines of the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The Meeting was co-chaired by the Indonesian Foreign Minister, H.E. Dr. R. M. Marty M. Natalegawa, and the Foreign Minister of [...]
New York, USA, 28 September 2011 Pursuant to the outcome of the 3rd ASEAN-UN Summit in October last year in Ha Noi, the ASEAN Secretariat's delegation paid a working visit to the United Nations' Secretariat in New York this week. The ASEAN-UN Secretariat-to-Secretariat dialogue was co-chaired by Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN and Mr [...]
New York, USA, 27 September 2011 The ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General and the President of the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (AUMM) was held on 27 September 2011 in New York, U.S.A. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Dr. R. M. Marty M. Natalegawa, Minister for Foreign [...]
New York, USA, 26 September 2011 Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN, recently had a fruitful exchange of views with Mr Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS). The two Secretaries-General met on the sideline of the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. They exchanged [...]
New York, USA, 26 September 2011 The 11th ASEAN-Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Ministerial Meeting, convened here on Saturday at the sidelines of the 66th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), discussed the latest developments in both regions and reviewed the progress on the implementation of its decisions taken at the last Meeting. This year's Meeting highlighted [...]