On the morning of April 23, in Hanoi , Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and delivered a speech at the opening session of the ASEAN Future Forum with the theme "Building a fast-growing, sustainable, people-centered ASEAN Community".
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Mr. Sonexay Siphandone, Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic - ASEAN Chair 2024 attended the opening session of the ASEAN Future Forum - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
Nearly 500 delegates attended the opening session, with the presence of Mr. Sonexay Siphandone, Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic - ASEAN Chair 2024; Mr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary General of ASEAN; ministers, ambassadors, representatives of ASEAN governments, dialogue partner countries, and international organizations.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin are expected to send recorded messages to the Forum.
Delegates attend the opening session of the ASEAN Future Forum - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
On the Vietnamese side, Head of the Central External Relations Commission Le Hoai Trung, leaders of central departments, ministries, branches and agencies attended the opening session.
The ASEAN Future Forum 2024 with the theme “Building a fast-growing, sustainable, people-centered ASEAN Community” is an important initiative proposed by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the 43rd ASEAN Summit in September 2023.
This is a new idea of Vietnam with the desire to create a common forum for ASEAN member countries as well as ASEAN's partners and friends, and ASEAN people to contribute to promoting and shaping the development path for the future of ASEAN.
According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the biggest difference between the “ASEAN Future Forum” and other forums is that it is a forum dedicated to ASEAN, by ASEAN, for ASEAN and for the people of ASEAN.
“ASEAN Future Forum” is a forum dedicated to ASEAN, by ASEAN, for ASEAN and for the people of ASEAN - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
The forum is expected to create a framework for regional and non-regional stakeholders to come together to provide ideas and initiatives for the process of building the ASEAN vision to 2045 and implementing the vision in the coming time; representing the voice and contribution of the region to the effort to orient the future development of the world through the United Nations Future Summit, scheduled to be held in September.
This is also Vietnam's specific contribution to the common effort towards building a people-centered ASEAN Community, promoting the rapid and sustainable development of ASEAN.
According to VGP News
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