ASEAN officials to meet in RP

ASEAN officials to meet in RP

MANILA (DPA): Senior defense and foreign affairs officials will gather in Manila today for a three-day meeting on enhancing regional security cooperation among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Manila is hosting the ASEAN Regional Forum after Southeast Asian foreign ministers made little progress last week in New York on a cease-fire in troubled Cambodia.

Sources at the Philippine foreign office said defense cooperation and confidence-building measures among the nine ASEAN countries will be discussed.

Joint economic cooperation in the Spratly Islands and security issues are on the agenda, they added.