Later the same day, State President Nguyen Minh Triet will give a banquet in honour of the ASEAN head delegates.

On April 8, following to the official opening of the ASEAN summit, there was a meeting between ASEAN leaders and the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA). Last year, during the 15^th ASEAN summit in Thailand, two informal meetings between the leaders of parliaments and governments took place. This year, on Vietnam’s initiative, the ASEAN-AIPA meeting is formal one.

It provides an excellent opportunity for leaders to discuss co-operative issues in the region to enhance the operational quality and efficiency of AIPA and ASEAN which will help them to reach their common goal of building an ASEAN community by 2015 on the basis of the ASEAN charter.