EAM Jaishankar co-chairs ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting
International
- External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar co-chaired the ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting along with his Thailand counterpart Don Pramudwinai.
- The meeting was held virtually and saw the participation of Foreign Ministers of the ten ASEAN Member States and India.
- It reviewed the status of ASEAN-India Strategic Partnership in several areas including maritime cooperation, connectivity, education and capacity building and people-to-people contacts.
- It also reviewed the progress in implementation of the ASEAN-India Plan of Action, 2016-2020.
- The new ASEAN-India Plan of Action (2021-2025) was adopted at the Meeting.
- The Ministers discussed ways to strengthen cooperation to fight COVID-19 pandemic and exchanged views on important regional and international developments.
Source: AIR
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration among its members and other countries in Asia.
- Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia
- Founded: 8 August 1967
- Members: Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Laos