Monthly Archives: February 2020

The Special Meeting of the Senior Officials’ Committee for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council (SOCA) on the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the ASCC Blueprint 2025 was successfully convened back-to-back with the SOCA Retreat in Da Lat City, Viet Nam on 24-25 February 2020. The Meeting was chaired by Dr. Ha Thi Minh Duc, as [...]

1. The ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) held a Special Meeting on 20 February 2020 in Vientiane, Lao PDR to discuss follow-up actions to the ASEAN Chairman’s Statement on ASEAN collective response to the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). 2. The Ministers emphasized the importance of ASEAN solidarity and unity to effectively respond to challenges from the outbreak [...]

We, the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN and the People’s Republic of China, met in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, on 20 February 2020 for the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); NOTING the ASEAN Chairman’s Statement on ASEAN collective response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 issued on 14 February 2020, [...]

The ASEAN Defence Ministers met at their Retreat in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, on 19 February 2020. The theme “Defence Cooperation for a Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN” is chosen by Viet Nam as Chair of the ADMM and the ADMM-Plus for this year. In response to the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Ministers issued the [...]

The second ASEAN-EU Dialogue on Sustainable Development: Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals was successfully convened in Brussels on 10 February 2020. It brought together senior representatives and experts of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and of the European Union (EU), the European Commission and the ASEAN Secretariat. The [...]