Singapore, Sept. 29 -- ASEAN and the United Nations (UN) today reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening their comprehensive partnership based on the implementation of the five-year Plan of Action (POA) to Implement the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Partnership between ASEAN and the United Nations (2016-2020), and enhancing complementarities between the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Complementarities Initiative).

The ASEAN-UN Ministerial Meeting was chaired by H.E. Mr. Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, and was attended by H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the President of the 74th Session of the U...