>>ASEAN Ministerial Meeting opens in Hanoi

This year’s meetings are among the most important annual events of ASEAN Foreign Ministries and their partners. This is the time for devising the orientation and placing priority on ASEAN cooperation and the relationship between the bloc and its partners.

ASEAN Foreign Ministers will discuss measures to boost ASEAN cooperation as well as regional and global issues of common concern.

The meetings also act as preparation for the ASEAN Summit at the end of 2011.

Vietnam’s participation is aimed at encouraging ASEAN solidarity, expanding and deepening the relationship between ASEAN and its partners, reinforcing ASEAN’s role in the region, and raising Vietnam’s role and status.