Saifuddin in New Delhi for special meet of ASEAN Foreign Ministers

NEW DELHI: India is hosting a Special Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-India Foreign Ministers' meeting in the country's capital to mark the 30th anniversary of its ties and 10- year strategic partnership with the 10-member bloc.

The two-day event starting today will see deliberations on initiatives to sustain economic recovery amid post-COVID-19 pandemic, which has created unprecedented losses and disruptions over all across the world and ways to further strengthen ASEAN and India ties in trade, investment and beyond.

Malaysia's Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah arrived on Wednesday for the meet.

India's External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar and Vivian Balakrishnan, Foreign Minister of Singapore, will co-chair the meeting.

Saifuddin together with the other ASEAN Foreign Ministers will be also attending the 12th edition of the Delhi Dialogue themed "Breaking barriers, building bridges in Indo-Pacific"--in commemoration of ASEAN-India Friendship Year 2022.

Saifuddin is expected to deliver remarks at the Ministerial Panel Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Relations of the Delhi Dialogue XII later today.

-- BERNAMA