- The 27th ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Summit was held on 10 October 2024 in Vientiane. The Summit was chaired by H.E. Mr. Sonexay Siphandone, Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and attended by ASEAN Member States, the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, as well as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste as Observer. The Secretary-General of ASEAN, the Director of ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), the 2024 Chair of the East Asia Business Council (EABC), and the Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS) were also in attendance.
- We noted with satisfaction the progress in APT cooperation over the past years and discussed its future direction. We reaffirmed our commitment to further strengthening and deepening the APT process, which plays a key role and as a main vehicle in regional community-building efforts and in promoting peace, stability, and security in the East Asian region with ASEAN as the driving force. We also recognised the importance of the APT to ASEAN’s efforts towards realizing the ASEAN Community Vision 2025, the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025, the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan IV (2021 -2025), and deeper regional integration in East Asia.
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