SEANWFZ body holds meeting

SEANWFZ body holds meeting

JAKARTA (JP): The Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone's
(SEANWFZ) Executive Committee held an inaugural meeting in
Bangkok on Tuesday, following on from the inaugural meeting of
its commission in Singapore in July.

The permanent secretary of Thailand's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Saroj Chavanaviraj, who hosted the meeting, said the
meeting agreed to establish a working group of the Executive
Committee, the composition of which would be at the discretion of
each ASEAN member country.

The working group will deal with all matters relating to
SEANWFZ and the implementation of the SEANWFZ Treaty.

SEANWFZ was signed in Bangkok nearly four years ago to promote
peace and stability in the region.