The 11th meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council Working Group on Timor-Leste’s Application for ASEAN Membership was held on July 29 via teleconference.
At the 11th meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council Working Group on Timor-Leste’s Application for ASEAN Membership. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The 11th meeting ofthe ASEAN Coordinating Council Working Group on Timor-Leste’s Application forASEAN Membership was held on July 29 via teleconference.
The Vietnamese delegation to the event was headed by DeputyMinister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of the Senior OfficialsMeeting (SOM) ASEAN Vietnam.
The meeting reviewed the study of Timor-Leste’s ASEAN membership application across the three pillars ofpolitics-security, economy and culture-society of the ASEAN Community and the implementationof programmes to help the country improve its capacity.
They appreciated the achieved results, including the completion of a document guiding Timor-Leste in joining ASEAN activities and lists of activities on the three pillars. The guiding document and the lists of activities will be submitted to the29th meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council, slated for August 2.
In his remarks, Dung praised efforts made to helpTimor-Leste join ASEAN despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Vietnamese delegation to the event was headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) ASEAN Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)
He said the document and the lists will serve as the basis for ASEAN’s specialised agencies to implement substantive activities to helpTimor-Leste raise its capacity.
Dung suggested ASEAN Community's pillars and the ASEAN Secretariat continue to assist the country in participating in certain activities of the ten-member grouping.
ASEAN gathers Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam./.
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At the 11th meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council Working Group on Timor-Leste’s Application for ASEAN Membership. (Photo: VNA) 
The Vietnamese delegation to the event was headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) ASEAN Vietnam. (Photo: VNA) 
