>PM arrives for Singapore informal ASEAN summit > >Prime Minister Phan Van Khai arrived in Singapore yesterday to attend the >fourth informal summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). >He is accompanied by Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien, Trade Minister Vu Khoan, >Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Tam Chien, Deputy Finance Minister Le Thi Bang >Tam, and Deputy Director of the Government Office Van Trong Ly. > >PM Khai had a bilateral talk with his Singaporean counterpart, Goh Chok Tong >in the afternoon. The two PMs discussed measures to boost the friendship and >multi-faceted co-operation between Vietnam and Singapore and to strengthen >solidarity, co-operation and mutual assistance between ASEAN countries in the >new situation. > >Prime Minister Goh asked Prime Minister Khai to convey profound sympathy from >the Singaporean government and people to flood victims in Vietnam's Mekong >delta provinces. > >He told Prime Minister Khai that at this summit, Singapore would raise the >proposal for further assistance to the four new member countries of ASEAN, >namely Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, for development of human >resources, particularly in information technology, with a view to narrowing >the development gap among ASEAN members. > >Prime Minister Khai expressed thanks to PM Goh and the Singaporean Government >and people for their hospitality and warm welcome given to the Vietnamese >delegation. He expressed his firm belief that with the active role of the host >country and close co-operation among ASEAN member countries, this time's ASEAN >summit would be successful, contributing to raising ASEAN's role and position >in the region and the world at large. > >PM Khai highly appreciated Singapore's co-operation with Vietnam over the past >time, especially co-operation in commerce, investment, education and training. >He said he believed that the mutually-beneficial co-operation would be >promoted and expanded in the time to come. (VNA) > >BACK TO TOP > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > >Vietnam attends ASEAN ministers' meetings > >Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien and Trade Minister Vu Khoan attended the >informal ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) and the informal ASEAN Economic >Minister (AEM) Meeting, respectively, in Singapore on November 23. > >At the informal AMM, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien and Foreign >Ministers of other ASEAN member countries heard the ASEAN's Eminent Persons >Group (EPG) reporting on ASEAN Vision 2020 and the contents of the ASEAN+Japan >Consultation Meeting on the Hanoi Plan of Action. > >The FMs expressed high appreciation of the efforts made by EPG and ASEAN Japan >consultants on the Hanoi Plan of Action and their support for the proposals in >the reports. They agreed to submit such report to the fourth Informal ASEAN >Summit. > >Addressing the AMM, Foreign Minister Nien stressed that the reports had >combined the spirit of the ASEAN Vision with objectives and solutions worked >out in the Hanoi Plan of Action. > >He stressed that the recommendations were of practical significance to ASEAN >and its member countries at present and in future, thus helping the >organisation build more action plans in order to carry out ASEAN Vision 2020 >upon the complete implementation of the Hanoi Plan of Action in 2004. > >The Vietnamese FM said that the proposals should be continued to be considered >and studied to work out objectives and feasible solutions to develop the >region and meet ASEAN's urgent demands, particularly demand for a narrowing >development gap among ASEAN members. > >At the informal AEM meeting, Trade Minister Vu Khoan and ASEAN economic >ministers checked documents, particularly an e- SEAN Framework Agreement to be >signed by ASEAN leaders during the meeting. > >This morning, the ministers signed a protocol on the implementation of the >Temporary Exclusion List under the framework of the ASEAN Free Trade Area >(AFTA). They affirmed that the signing of the protocol would not be a step >backward as compared to AFTA but a proper way to implement AFTA, especially at >the post-crisis period. > >They also discussed and submitted to State and government leaders of ASEAN >countries proposals to strengthen economic co-operation within ASEAN as well >as between ASEAN and dialogue partners, particularly China, Japan and the >Republic of Korea. (VNA) > >BACK TO TOP > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > >Vietnam hosts ASEAN engineers' federation meeting > >The 18th meeting of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations (AFEO) >is being held in Hanoi on November 23 and 24 to boost scientific and >technological co-operation among members of the Association of Southeast Asian >Nations (ASEAN). >The meeting, sponsored by the Vietnam Union of Scientific and Technical >Associations (VUSTA), drew more than 150 scientists from another ASEAN-member >countries and 150 Vietnamese scientific workers. > >VUSTA Chairman Professor Vu Tuyen Hoang who is also AFEO President delivered a >speech to open the meeting. > >Addressing the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Manh Cam said that >scientific and technological co-operation among ASEAN countries should focus >on practical and strategic aspects. > >High on the 18th meeting's agenda are a scientific workshop with 80 reports, a >meeting of AFEO leaders, the admittance of new members - Cambodia and Myanmar, >and a ceremony to present ASEAN technological prizes. > >The 19th AFEO meeting will be organised in Brunei in 2001. (VNA) > >BACK TO TOP > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > >Vietnam calls for serious action against violator of national sovereignty > >Vietnam has called for serious action to be taken under Vietnamese and >international laws and practices against "international terrorist" Ly Tong. >Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh on November 23 condemned >violations of Vietnam's national sovereignty and security by Ly Tong. > >Ly Tong, a Vietnamese citizen residing in the United States, is known as a >"dangerous international terrorist," Ms Thanh told Hanoi-based foreign >correspondents seeking information about his arrest in Thailand. > >She noted that Tong had been arrested in Vietnam in 1992 and sentenced to 20 >years in prison on the charge of hijacking. He was granted State amnesty in >September 1998. In January 2000, Tong infringed into Cuba's airspace. > >His latest actions were specially serious because he had violated Vietnam's >national sovereignty and security, air safety regulations and international >laws and conventions, the spokeswoman said. > >"Tong's dangerous moves must be seriously handled under Vietnam's law and >relevant countries should take appropriate action in conformity with >international laws and practices," she stressed. (VNA) _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
