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The High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Community's Post-2025 Vision ( 20 March 2023 )


On 19-20 March 2023, H.E. Dr. CHEM Widhya, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Eminent Person of Cambodia for the High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Community's Post-2025 Vision (HLTF-ACV) led the delegation to attend the 7th HLTF-ACV Meeting in Belitung, Indonesia.

The Meeting continued their discussions on the development of the Vision for a resilient and inclusive ASEAN Community within twenty years from now by focusing on the megatrends such as geopolitics, food security, energy crisis, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, demographic, climate change and pandemics.

The HLTF-ACV had an interface consultation with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) so as to benefit from their visions and perspectives on the issues under their respective missions.

The Meeting focused their attention particularly on the need and challenges to ensure and preserve ASEAN centrality in the regional architecture, including the need to have a better check and balance when empowering ASEAN bodies that would take into account agility, flexibility and responsiveness.

Representatives from Timor-Leste were invited to the 7th HLTF-ACV Meeting as Observers.

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