(28 Jan 2024)
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 28 January 2024
1. Numerous of Indonesian International Minister Retno Marsudi arriving and being greeted by Laos International Minister Saleumxay Kommasith
2. Numerous of Thai International Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
3. Numerous of Brunei Second International Minister Erywan Yusof arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
4. Singapore International Minister Vivian Balakrishnan arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
5. Cambodia’s International Minister Sok Chenda Sophea arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
6. Vietnam’s Deputy International Minister Bui Thanh Son arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
7. Malaysia International Minister Mohammad Hasan arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
8. Numerous of Myanmar’s ASEAN Everlasting Secretary Marlar Than Htike arriving in automobile and being greeted by Kommasith
9. East Timor International Minister Bendito dos Santos Freitas arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
10. Philippine International Undersecretary Theresa Lazaro arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
11. ASEAN Secretary-Normal Kao Kim Hourn arriving and being greeted by Kommasith
12. Numerous of delegates posing for group picture with Mekong River behind
13. Shut of ASEAN signal
14. Broad of Laos International Minister Saleumxay Kommasith talking at podium
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Saleumxay Kommasith, Laos International Minister:
“Laos has used the theme of enhanced connectivity and resilience. I consider (it) would positively reply to the present scenario, whether or not within the area or on this planet.”
16. Numerous of delegates throughout toast
STORYLINE:
International ministers and authorities representatives of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) attended a welcome dinner Sunday in Luang Prabang, Laos.
The occasion was held on the Grand Luang Prabang Lodge and delegates, some accompanied by their spouses, had been greeted by Laos International Minister Saleumxay Kommasith.
The delegates posed for pictures with the Mekong River behind them earlier than the dinner commenced.
Laos, the poorest nation within the ASEAN, is taking up because the bloc’s rotating chair amid the backdrop of simmering tensions within the South China Sea and coordinated assaults on the navy run authorities that seized management of Myanmar.
Because the overseas ministers collect in Luang Prabang for this 12 months’s first top-level conferences, many are pessimistic that ASEAN can preserve its largest challenges from festering and rising.
After the navy seized management of Myanmar in February 2021 from the democratically elected authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi, ASEAN — comprised of Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Brunei and Laos — got here up with a “5-Level Consensus” plan for peace.
The navy management in Myanmar has thus far ignored the plan. On the similar time, a humanitarian disaster is rising, with greater than 2.6 million folks pressured from their houses attributable to escalating violence, in response to the United Nations.
In the meantime, many are locked in maritime disputes with China over its claims of sovereignty over nearly all the South China Sea, one of many world’s most vital waterways for delivery.
The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei, all have their very own claims over islands, reefs and undersea sources within the area.
Indonesia has additionally expressed concern about what it sees as Beijing’s encroachment on its unique financial zone within the waters.
AP video shot by: Tian Macleod Ji.
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