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ASEAN-India Senior Officials Meeting convenes

VGP - Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung attended the working session of the ASEAN-India Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in New Delhi, India, on January 23 to review preparations for the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit to be held on January 25.

January 24, 2018 2:20 PM GMT+7

At the meeting, Deputy Minister Dung, the coordinator of the ASEAN-India relations, and other countries agreed on the agenda and activities of the Commemorative Summit. 

Leaders of the countries are expected to review the cooperation between the ASEAN and India on the occasion of the 25thfounding anniversary of ASEAN-India Dialogue Relations, proposing cooperation orientations in the upcoming time and discussing regional and international issues of shared concern. 

They will also have a retreat to talk about the enhancement of maritime cooperation between the ten-member group and India. The Delhi Declaration is set to be issued at the end of the event. 

As part of activities marking the 25th anniversary of the ASEAN-India dialogue relations, the senior officials of the two sides visited the ASEAN-India textile exhibition and the ASEAN-India youth award ceremony.

By Thuy Dung