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.