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- The 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) was hosted and chaired by H.E. Saleumxay Kommasith, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lao PDR.
- Dr. S. Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister of India, actively participated in this meeting.
- Under the theme of “ASEAN: Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience,” the meeting reaffirmed ASEAN’s commitment to strengthen the ASEAN Community across three pillars:
- Community Building: Intensifying cooperation, promoting infrastructure connectivity, narrowing development gaps, enhancing economic integration, and strengthening capacity and institutional effectiveness.
- Centrality and Relevance: Upholding ASEAN centrality, maintaining an open, inclusive, transparent, resilient, and rules-based regional architecture, and engaging with dialogue partners.
- Vision 2045: Developing strategic plans for the ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN Economic Community, and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community to ensure resilience, innovation, dynamism, and people-centeredness by 2045.
Question:
1 Which theme was highlighted at the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting?
- A) ASEAN: Strengthening Economic Ties
- B) ASEAN: Advancing Military Cooperation
- C) ASEAN: Promoting Cultural Exchange
- D) ASEAN: Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience
