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View all search resultsThe final day of the 59th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) shifted the focus from pressing security challenges to strengthening the bloc's engagement with external partners. The agenda featured new accessions to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) and a high-level conference on preventive diplomacy, maritime security and emerging security challenges.
As top diplomats of ASEAN member states met with their key partners in Manila on the second day of the bloc’s Foreign Ministers Meeting, Indonesia calls for ‘real benefits’ in partnership beyond ceremonial engagements.
Risks have increased in recent days, with Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis announcing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, opening a potential new front in the conflict and raising the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.
Indonesia will use this week's ASEAN foreign ministers' meetings in Manila to push for a more resilient, forward-looking and strategically independent regional bloc, arguing that Southeast Asia must strengthen its internal cohesion as geopolitical rivalries and global conflicts increasingly spill into the region.
Top officials from across Southeast Asia packed a hectic schedule of back-to-back meetings in Cebu, the Philippines, on Thursday, laying the groundwork for the leaders’ summit while zeroing in on a unified ASEAN response to the Middle East crisis, as fears of a deepening energy crunch hang over the 11-nation bloc.
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