1. The Ministers from the 16 RCEP Participating Countries (RPCs) attended the 3rd RCEP Intersessional Ministerial Meeting held on 21-22 May 2017 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam to take stock of the status of RCEP negotiations including the challenges faced following the conclusion of the 18th round of negotiations held on 2-12 May 2017 in Pasay City, Philippines. [...]
Good afternoon everybody. We met yesterday for the Co-Chairs’ Joint Press Briefing on the 14th ASEAN-China SOM-DOC. Today we meet to brief you on the 23rd ASEAN-China Senior Officials’ Consultation and the overall ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my Co-Chair, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Mr Liu Zhenmin, the [...]
Singapore and China co-chaired the 14th ASEAN-China Senior Officials’ Meeting on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea. We discussed the South China Sea (SCS) issue and are encouraged that for the past months there have been no major disruptions and the situation in the SCS and [...]
1. The Nineteenth Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution (19th MSC) was held on 18 May 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and attended by Ministers/representatives responsible for the environment, for land, forest fires and haze, from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, and the Secretary-General of ASEAN. The Nineteenth Meeting [...]
1. The 26th Meeting of the ASEAN Customs Directors-General was held from 16 to 18 May 2017 in Bali, Indonesia. The Meeting was chaired by Mr. Heru Pambudi, Director General of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise of the Republic of Indonesia. The Meeting was attended by all 10 ASEAN Member States and the [...]
We, the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of ASEAN, China, Japan and Korea (ASEAN+3), convened our 20th meeting in Yokohama, Japan, under the co-chairmanship of E. Carlos G. Dominguez III, Finance Secretary of the Philippines, and H.E. Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Japan. The President of the Asian Development [...]
