Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the ASEAN - Japan, ASEAN Plus Three (China, the Republic of Korea, Japan), and ASEAN - Australia Summits in Vientiane, Laos, on October 10.
Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison affirmed his country’s support for ASEAN’s centrality in the Indo-Pacific region while addressing the first ASEAN - Australia Summit, held virtually on October 27.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will not attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-Australia Summit in Sydney this month, his spokesman Harry Roque said on March 5.