ASEAN Summit Week starts in Hà Nội
VGP – The ASEAN Summit Week started this morning in Hà Nội with three preparatory meetings of ASEAN Senior Officials (SOM), ASEAN Senior Economic Officials (SEOM), and Senior Officials' Committee for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOCA).
These meetings finalized
the contents and other preparations for the 16th ASEAN Summit to be
held later this week.
The ASEAN Politics-Security
Community will bolster a safe and peaceful environment for the development in
The preparatory meeting of senior officials’ committee
on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, Hà Nội, April 6, 2010 – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc
With its Economic
Community, ASEAN look towards a single market with a common foundation for
production and free movement of goods, services, investment flows, and labor
force, so as to sharpen the region’s competitiveness, attraction and prosperity.
Meanwhile, the general
target of the ASEAN Culture-Society Community is to serve and better the
quality of ASEAN people’s life, settle issues relating social equality,
cultural identities, environment, globalization and technological revolutions.
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ASEAN
senior economic officials – Photo: VGP/Nhật Bắc |
The SEOM reviewed
the progress in realizing the Blueprint on the implementation of the ASEAN
Economic Community in 2015 and discussed directions to deepen the bloc’s
economic integration. The meeting also adopted the final draft of the Việt
Nam-initiated Statement on Sustainable Economic Recover and Development which
will be submitted to the 16th ASEAN Summit for approval.
Senior officials
in the Committee on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) centered their
discussions on identifying priorities for the construction of the ASCC.
Four major aspects
of the SOCA included response to global challenges; development of human resources
for economic recovery; promotion and protection of rights of women and children;
and fostering cultural elements of the Community.
