RI to host UN-ASEAN conference

RI to host UN-ASEAN conference

INDONESIA: Indonesia will host the fourth UN-ASEAN Conference in
Jakarta on Feb. 24-25, 2004 at the Hilton Hotel, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs' director of information and media Lutfi Rauf
said.

The two-day conference will host top officials from ASEAN
(Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, the United
Nations Development program (UNDP), ASEAN Secretariat and members
of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

The meeting will be officially opened by Indonesian Minister
of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirayuda.

The first UN-ASEAN conference was co-organized by the
Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkom
University, Thailand in January 2001. The second was organized in
Manila in February, 2002 by Philippines Institute for Strategic
and Development Studies and the third was held in Singapore in
February, 2003. -- JP