DA NANG, April 10 -- Senior Officials of ASEAN and the United Kingdom reaffirmed their commitment to intensifying the ASEAN-UK Dialogue Partnership and strengthen collaboration in mutually beneficial areas at the 4th ASEAN-UK Senior Officials' Meeting (AUKSOM) in Da Nang, Viet Nam today.

Both sides welcomed the robust implementation of the ASEAN-UK Plan of Action (POA) 2022-2026, with nearly 95 percent having been or currently being addressed, and which would serve as a strong foundation for developing a successor document. ASEAN also welcomed the progress in the UK's five flagship cooperation programmes.

The Senior Officials discussed cooperation areas that ASEAN and the UK could further explore across the three ASEAN Community pillars...