BANGKOK, Nov 11 — Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha will attend the 25th ASEAN Summit and related summits to be held November 12-13 in Nay Pyi Taw, the Myanmar capital
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, in addition to the ASEAN Summit, the region’s heads will also meet with ‘dialogue partners’ India, Japan, Australia, the United States, and China, as well as join the ASEAN-UN Summit, the ASEAN Plus Three Summit, the East Asia Summit (EAS) and the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting with the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC).
The prime minister will also attend the Mekong-Japan Summit to discuss cooperation at the sub-regional level.
As ASEAN is working towards becoming the ASEAN Community by the end of next year, the upcoming summits will focus on reviewing the progress of the association’s community building and pushing forward areas of cooperation within ASEAN, as well as between ASEAN and dialogue partners, and it will be an opportunity for leaders to discuss important regional and international issues.
Among the issues that the 25th ASEAN Summit will tackle include ASEAN community building; the ASEAN Community’s Post-2015 Vision; exchanging views of regional and international issues. The leaders will be able to discuss progress toward ASEAN community building, priority issues for 2015, as well as the future direction of ASEAN beyond 2015.
The Summits with Dialogue Partners will focus on the review and future direction of cooperation, as well as exchanging views on regional and international issues such as the South China Sea, Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, and the Ebola virus.
Ten documents are expected to be adopted during the summits, led by the Nay Pyi Taw Framework for the ASEAN Community Post-2015 Vision.
The second document, The Joint Statement of the 9th East Asia Summit on Regional Response to the Outbreak of Ebola and the third, the East Asia Summit Statement on the Rise of Violence and Brutality Committed by Terrorist/Extremist Organizations in Iraq and Syria, followed by the environment with the fourth document, ASEAN-US Joint Statement on Climate Change.
The regional alliance itself is the focus of document five, the Declaration on Strengthening the ASEAN Secretariat/Reviewing ASEAN Organs, while sixth place is given to the ASEAN-UN Interim Work Plan for 2014-2015.
Seventh is the East Asia Summit Declaration on Combating Wildlife Trafficking; and eighth is a Statement on EAS Guidelines for Rapid Disaster Response; and ninth is the East Asia Summit Statement on Enhancing Regional Maritime Cooperation.
Tenth place is a Joint ASEAN-Australia Leaders’ Statement on the 40th Anniversary of ASEAN-Australia Dialogue Relations.
