ASEAN Summit

JAKARTA - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with Bruneian FM Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof on the sidelines of the 43rd ASEAN summit in Jakarta on Monday to discuss bilateral cooperation.

JAKARTA - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with the FMs of Singapore and Cambodia, Vivian Balakrishnan and Sok Chenda Sophea, on the sidelines of the 43rd ASEAN summit in Jakarta on Monday to discuss cooperation and advancement of relations.

The Indonesian Embassy in Athens celebrated the 56th anniversary of the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with a day of celebration on August 8.

JAKARTA - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states on Wednesday unanimously approved Serbia's request to accede to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, the Serbian government's press office announced in a statement.

The decision was made at the 56th plenary meeting of ASEAN FMs in Jakarta, which ended on Wednesday.

The countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) unanimously approved Serbia's accession request to the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation in Southeast Asia.
The decision was made at the 56th plenary meeting of foreign ministers of that organization in Jakarta, which ended today.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have agreed to downgrade Myanmar's participation in an upcoming summit in their sharpest rebuke yet of its leaders following a Feb. 1 military takeover.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will invite a non-political representative instead of Myanmar's military leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the grouping's chair Brunei said on Oct. 16.

Russia advocates the establishment of the Greater Eurasian Partnership with the participation of the Eurasian Economic Union, ASEAN, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, "possibly other entities". This was stated by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the summit in Bangkok of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, TASS reported.

Trump did not attend the ASEAN leaders' summit and the East Asian Summit in Thailand's capital on November 2-4 and did not send either the Vice President or the US Secretary of State to Bangkok. Robert O 'Brian, US National Security Advisor, arrived in Bangkok as chairman of the Washington delegation.

Southeast Asian countries must be united in the face of a trade war launched by US President Donald Trump, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said today at a high-level regional business forum, Reuters reported.

The meeting, not far from the Thai capital, is a co-event at the Southeast Asian Nations Association (ASEAN) summit, against the backdrop of tense US-China relations.

Turkey aims to sign a free trade agreement with Thailand, said the country's foreign minister on July 28 as part of the 52nd Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).