JAKARTA, 12 November 2024 – ASEAN and France recognized various new cooperation initiatives to steer their improvement partnership ahead on the Fourth Assembly of the ASEAN-France Improvement Partnership Committee, held as we speak on the ASEAN Headquarters/ASEAN Secretariat.
The brand new initiatives, amongst others cowl actions within the areas of French language and tradition, artistic industries, tropical and peatlands administration, humanitarian help landmines and explosive remnants of battle, people-to-people exchanges and help for the ASEAN Energy Grid initiative.
ASEAN welcomed France’s sturdy dedication to reinforce the partnership together with by way of the institution of the ASEAN-France Fund, which goals to reinforce tangible cooperation tasks between ASEAN and France and contribute to progressing the implementation of the ASEAN-France PCA 2022-2026.
The Assembly explored alternatives to additional improve cooperation in numerous areas of mutual pursuits, together with combatting transnational crime, vitality together with vitality transition, meals safety, digital transformation together with cybersecurity, well being cooperation together with psychological well being, biodiversity conservation, environmental safety, tradition, artistic financial system, media and data, training, vocational coaching, human sources improvement, connectivity, good cities and sustainable improvement, in addition to mainstreaming the 4 precedence areas beneath the ambit of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.
Along with the three ongoing tasks, specifically the Sustainable Ship Waste Administration for ASEAN, Selling Power Effectivity in Buildings in ASEAN, and the Air High quality Enchancment Programme in ASEAN, either side welcomed the graduation of the Multisector Capability Constructing Facility Programme, specializing in capability constructing in recognized areas for officers of ASEAN Member States, the ASEAN Secretariat, and ASEAN Centres.
Recognising the significance of the ASEAN Junior Fellowship Programme (AJFP) in enhancing people-to-people contacts, France renewed its contribution of USD 100,000 from the ASEAN-France Fund and introduced a further USD 100,000 for the junior fellows to undertake a working go to to France to grasp the nation’s coverage making course of inside the European Union (EU), within the multilateral context and bilaterally with ASEAN.
Throughout the assembly, either side famous the progress made within the implementation of the ASEAN-France Sensible Cooperation Areas (2022-2026) in areas inside the area of transport, local weather change, people-to-people exchanges, catastrophe administration, capability constructing, and air high quality promotion.
The 4th AF-DPC Assembly was co-chaired by H.E. Dato’ Astanah Abdul Aziz, Deputy Secretary-Basic of ASEAN for ASEAN Political-Safety Neighborhood and H.E. Fabien Penone, Ambassador of France to ASEAN. It was attended by members of the Committee of Everlasting Representatives to ASEAN and/or their representatives, officers from France and the ASEAN Secretariat. The Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to ASEAN attended as Observer.
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