Vietnam serves as coordinator for ASEAN-RoK relations

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Vietnam serves as coordinator for ASEAN-RoK relations

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

YBO - Vietnam officially assumes the role as coordinator for ASEAN-the Republic of Korea (RoK) relations for 2021-2024 at the ASEAN-RoK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held via videoconference on August 3.

ASEAN, RoK foreign ministers gather at the meeting

Vietnam officially assumes the role as coordinator for ASEAN-the Republic of Korea (RoK) relations for 2021-2024 at the ASEAN-RoK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held via videoconference on August 3.

Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son affirmed Vietnam will work with other countries to intensify and deepen the ASEAN-RoK strategic partnership in the new period.

Son appreciated the RoK's increasingly important role in the region and welcomed its New Southern Policy aiming at deepening its partnership with ASEAN and Southeast Asia.

He suggested the RoK continue to supply vaccines against COVID-19 to ASEAN countries, support the bloc’s efforts to narrow the development gap and promote equitable and sustainable development in the ASEAN sub-regions, including the Mekong sub-region.

The Vietnamese minister thanked the RoK for supporting ASEAN’s principle stance on the East Sea, and proposed the nation cooperate in promoting dialogue and trust building, exercising restraint and respecting international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

He affirmed ASEAN's commitment to fully and effectively implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and maintaining efforts to achieve an effective and substantive Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) in accordance with international law and the UNCLOS.

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Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son

The official also asserted that ASEAN supports the RoK’s efforts to promote peace, stability and complete denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula, stressing that ASEAN is ready to play a constructive role and create favourable conditions for dialogue among parties involved in ASEAN-led mechanisms.

Addressing the meeting, RoK Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong affirmed that his country attaches importance to its strategic partnership with ASEAN, emphasising that ASEAN is the priority of its New Southern Policy, and the RoK backs the grouping's central role in the regional architecture and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP).

In addition to 1 million USD in support for ASEAN’s pandemic response, the RoK proposed organising the ASEAN-RoK Health Ministers’ Meeting in 2021 and strengthening medical dialogue between the two sides.

ASEAN countries appreciate the RoK’s timely and effective support, asking it to promote cooperation in the development, production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines.

Participants stressed the need to maintain a peaceful, secure, stable and favourable environment for pandemic prevention and control and post-pandemic recovery efforts.

The RoK backs ASEAN’s stance on the East Sea, and welcomes the bloc to promote its role in promoting cooperation, dialogue and trust building in the region, and building an efficient and effective COC, in accordance with international law and the UNCLOS.

At this meeting, the two sides agreed to issue a Declaration on strengthening ASEAN-RoK cooperation on AOIP at the 22nd ASEAN-RoK Summit later this year.

VNA

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