ASEAN meets in Ho Chi Minh

Sat, 17 Mar 2001 | Source: AFP

HANOI (AFP): Deputy Foreign Ministers and senior officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in the commercial city of Ho Chi Minh City to discuss cooperation programs, a report said on Friday.

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry's ASEAN department director said the senior official meeting was due to prepare fresh cooperation programs, which ASEAN ministers would discuss at their 34th meeting in Vietnam in July, the Saigon Times daily reported.

The two-day meeting -- started on Thursday -- was also due to review implementation of agreements slated in the Hanoi Plan of Action and at the informal ASEAN meeting in Singapore last November.

The action plan adopted at a summit in Hanoi in 1998 includes 270 measures and cooperation programs for enhancing the region's position in international forums.

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