Indonesia’s top official ASEAN diplomats from Southeast Asia will meet their Chinese counterpart in Laos on Thursday in the hunt for a standard response to the novel coronavirus epidemic, a senior Indonesian foreign policy official confirmed Jakarta Post Officewhen the region begins to struggle with the results of the epidemic.
ASEAN foreign ministers are set to convene an upcoming emergency ministerial meeting in Vietniane to explore possible cooperation with China to share information and improve coordination between China and the ten-nation bloc to combat the virus.
“[The meeting] will discuss further cooperation in reference to the coronavirus [response] and likewise [to prepare for when] similar diseases will occur in the longer term,” ASEAN’s top Indonesian official, Jose Tavares, was quoted as saying Jakarta Post Office.
Last month, ASEAN foreign ministers held their annual retreat in Vietnam, the country serving because the association’s president this yr.
Meanwhile, ASEAN countries have already reached a vital agreement to carry a summit with the United States in mid-March in Las Vegas on the invitation of US President Donald Trump, sources say. ABS-CBN.
