ASEAN officials raise many proposals for inter-bloc linkage
VGP - At the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting (SOM), the ASEAN Senior Economics Officials Meeting (SEOM), the meeting of the Senior Officials Committee for the ASEAN Socio- Cultural Community (SOCA), and the Joint Preparatory Meeting (JPM), the officials approved a draft program and the agenda and lists of documents to be submitted to ASEAN ministers at the 16th ASEAN Summit, which is slated for April 8-9 in Hà Nội.
After three working
days in, ASEAN’s meetings were wrapped up on Wednesday.
Senior ASEAN
officials reached several agreements on boosting the cooperation and linkages
among bloc members.
They also
reviewed cooperation in the building the ASEAN Community of the three major
pillars of political security, economy and culture.
Many issues
and measures were raised to harmonize interests, facilitate the movement of
goods, services and labor force.
According to
Mr. Phạm Quang Vinh, Assistant to the Vietnamese FM and Head of Việt
Việt
Việt
He informed
ASEAN members that Việt Nam is ready for the upcoming summit and has reached
agreements with other members on the organization of additional activities in Việt