- The meeting has discussed issues of regional and international importance.
- Now a Days East Asia Summit(EAS) acts as a leading mechanism for the promotion of a free, open, inclusive, and rules-based Indo-Pacific with ASEAN at its center.
- The East Asia Summit (EAS) create such a premier leaders-led forum to exchange views on strategic issues in the Indo-Pacific.
- The EAS conference was first initiated in 2015 and the first conference was held in New Delhi. The second was held in Goa in 2017, the third in Bhubaneswar in 2018, and the fourth in Chennai last year.
- In this meeting, India shares its strategic vision which envisages a free, open, inclusive, and rules-based Indo-Pacific with respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations and peaceful settlement of issues through cooperation.
- Apart from that, it focuses on seven pillars for cooperation and collaboration namely maritime security, maritime ecology, maritime resources, capacity building, and resource sharing, disaster risk reduction, and management, science, technology and academic cooperation and trade, and connectivity.
Question:
Q.1 In the year 2022, East Asia Summit held under the chairmanship of which of the following countries?a. Indonesia
b. Thailand
c. Cambodia
d. Malaysia
