The upcoming ASEAN Summit, organized under Indonesia's ASEAN Chairmanship, will take place in Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai District, East Nusa Tenggara, on May 9-11, 2023.
"We are keen to ensure ASEAN will remain essential, relevant, and can hold onto its unity to maintain its centrality in preserving peace and stability in the region to make Southeast Asia to continue to becoming the center of global economic growth," she stated here on Tuesday.
All relevant documents for the summit are under negotiations at senior official meetings (SOM) before being carried to the foreign minister-level meetings, she remarked, adding that negotiations would be continued until shortly before the summit day.
"We will see whether (the negotiations) will finish at the SOM level or not, and if not, the negotiation will continue at the foreign minister level before we deliver it to the ASEAN leaders for its adoption," the foreign minister explained.
Meanwhile, Marsudi expounded that some meetings during the ASEAN Summit will be the meeting between ASEAN leaders and the parliament, the youth, the business community, and the high-level task force.
There were also two other meetings, namely the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle Sub-Regional Economic Cooperation (IMT-GT) and the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Cooperation.
Meanwhile, seven of the eight meetings during the summit will be chaired by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), while the BIMP-EAGA meeting will be led by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, she remarked.
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Translator: Fransiska MN, Nabil Ihsan
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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