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| Publication date 02 March 2021 | 21:04 ICT
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Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks during the 30th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting at Peace Palace In September 2012. Post Staff
Cambodia’s preparation for the ASEAN chairmanship in 2022
Tue, 2 March 2021
The year 2022 is just around the corner and Cambodia will soon undertake the role of ASEAN chairmanship for the third time. This would be a moment of pride and also pressure.
ASEAN has always been an integral part of Cambodia’s foreign policy. Despite being a latecomer, Cambodia has proven to be an active and constructive supporter of the ASEAN Community-building. The country’s boldness in assuming her first ASEAN chairmanship in 2002 after merely three years of her participation in this regional grouping demonstrated a strong political will and unwavering commitment of Cambodia’s top leadership towards regional integration and multilateralism. Such commitment remains unchanged but ever more resolute.
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VIENTIANE, Feb 22 (Vientiane Times/ANN): Asean officials have agreed to set up a team in the Asean Secretariat to monitor implementation of the plan for Asean comprehensive recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Officials reached an agreement on the move at the 6th Meeting of the Asean Coordinating Council Working Group on Public Health Emergencies held via video link last week.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Thongphanh Savanphet, who heads Lao Senior Officials in Asean, led the Lao delegation attending the meeting.
The meeting was attended by senior Asean officials from the economic, socio-cultural, health, and transport sectors, Asean Permanent Committee, immigration departments, consulates, tourism authorities, and the Asean Secretariat.
With multiple initiatives set to launch, 2021 was supposed to be the year Australia pivoted to Southeast Asia. Recent events in Myanmar will make this more challenging, but the underlying reasons for investing in Southeast Asia remain.
At the start of 2020, consultations for a new international development policy were full of voices worrying that Australia was stepping away from Southeast Asia following its Pacific step-up announcement. But by year’s end, the government had announced significant funding for a variety of projects across Southeast Asian nations.
In May, the ‘Partnerships for recovery’ development policy placed a priority on the Pacific and Southeast Asia as Australia’s immediate region. The rationale was clear: ‘These are the places where we have the most extensive partnerships and can have most impact.’ In July, the defence strategic update announced a decisive refocus on Australia’s immediate region, from the northeastern Indian Ocean through maritime