‘ASEAN transformed into vibrant body’
July 4, 2021
Islamabad: Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood has said that Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has transformed into a vibrant 10-member body, an increasingly integrated economic community and a central pillar of regional architecture.
Sohail Mahmood said that Pakistan needs to prioritise five areas of cooperation with ASEAN; strengthening of Pak-ASEAN connectivity, support for the business communities to comprehensively upgrade economic cooperation with ASEAN countries, focus on tourism, explore avenues of cooperation in Science & Technology, IT and higher education and lastly deepen our cultural exchanges.
Sohail Mahmood was speaking as chief guest at the Pakistan-ASEAN Experts Dialogue on Pakistan-ASEAN: shared future and the way forward organised here by the Centre for Strategic Perspectives (CSP) at Institute of Strategic Studies in collaboration with the Indonesian Embassy and the ASEAN Committee in Islamab
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