The information was announced by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet on the afternoon of April 1, at the international press conference on the ASEAN Future Forum 2024 (AFF 2024).
According to the leader of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the initiative to organize the ASEAN Future Forum was announced by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia in September 2023.
This is Vietnam's idea with the desire to contribute with member countries, friends, partners of ASEAN and people of all walks of life to promote and shape the future development path for ASEAN.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet answered questions from the press about the ASEAN Future Forum on the afternoon of April 1 (Photo: Ha My).
In the context of the world and the region changing rapidly and complicatedly, posing many opportunities and chances, along with significant challenges, Mr. Hung emphasized that ASEAN countries are also facing many different choices in development strategies as well as visions for ASEAN, the region and the world .
"The new situation raises many questions for ASEAN now and in the future: How to maintain its central role and adapt to changes in the region and the world? How to balance and harmonize the concerns and interests of its members? How to balance innovation and preserve ASEAN's core values?", Mr. Hung said.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs said that in that context, the idea of organizing the ASEAN Future Forum (AFF) is part of the efforts of Vietnam and ASEAN countries to create a forum to discuss and seek answers to the above questions.
This year’s Future of ASEAN Forum was held on April 23 in Hanoi. This is a large-scale, high-level multilateral event with the participation of over 200 delegates, including senior leaders of several ASEAN countries and partners, representatives of international organizations and leading scholars from the region and the world.
Accordingly, the forum will be a channel to provide ideas and initiatives for the process of building the ASEAN vision to 2045; 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 next September.
The theme of this year's forum is "Building a fast-growing, sustainable, people-centered ASEAN community".
"This theme reflects the concerns and expectations of Vietnam's senior leaders, closely linked to the development orientation of ASEAN and Vietnam, especially promoting sustainable economic growth and building a people-oriented, people-centered community," Deputy Minister Do Hung Viet emphasized.
Ms. Pham Lan Dung, Acting Principal of the Diplomatic Academy, emphasized the importance of youth to the future of ASEAN (Photo: Ha My).
Within the framework of this forum, on April 22, the ASEAN Secretary-General will have a dialogue with young people, creating an opportunity for young people to share their expectations and recommendations for the future direction of ASEAN.
Speaking to the press after the press conference, Dr. Pham Lan Dung, Acting Director of the Diplomatic Academy, emphasized that in just 10-20 years, today's generations of young students will become the main subjects leading and creating a common future for ASEAN.
"Therefore, we believe that youth dialogue is a meaningful and necessary activity, helping us understand youth's views on ASEAN as well as their expectations for this organization," said Ms. Dung.
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