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Cambodian FM Participates in the G7 Meeting to Strengthen ASEAN Community

  • Posted Dec 13, 2021 15:41 by Yuri Matoszko
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PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn has attended the Second Meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers and Development Ministers forum on Sunday under the presidency of the United Kingdom. The Group of Seven is an inter-governmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The two-day G7 Foreign and Development Ministers meeting was held in Liverpool on Saturday and Sunday. The Sunday conference was the first meeting between the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers and ASEAN Member States.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prak Sokhonn, has participated through online at the invitation of the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom. The Ministry has stated that vaccines and global health security, economic growth, technology and infrastructure, regional collaboration and regional development are some of the topics as well as at the upcoming ASEAN conference chaired by Cambodia in 2022. The statement has also added that Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, as the ASEAN Chair in 2022, has made his intervention on these topics and on Cambodia’s priorities in steering ASEAN Community building efforts.

In the Chair’s Statement on ASEAN, G7 and ASEAN Ministers welcomed their growing engagement and noted that all G7 members were now ASEAN Strategic, Dialogue or Development Partners, following the confirmation of the UK as a Dialogue Partner earlier this year. They discussed our many shared interests, including in open markets, sustainable and quality infrastructure, regional stability, and sustainable development across the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.

They have also reaffirmed support for ASEAN Centrality, an open and inclusive, rules based regional architecture, and the importance of ensuring peace, stability, prosperity and adherence to international law in South East Asia. They recognised the importance of maintaining resilient global supply chains and supporting global economic recovery by keeping markets open to trade and investment, in accordance with countries’ respective commitments within the international rules-based system. The importance of the G7 and ASEAN working together to advance gender equality was highlighted. They all welcomed the G7’s continued commitment to speed up vaccine supply and support further innovation to develop more effective vaccines against Covid-19 and future health threats.

In addition, the Foreign Ministers have expressed deep concern about developments in Myanmar.

They underlined their support for the immediate and full implementation of ASEAN’s Five Point Consensus, which includes the Special Envoy to visit Myanmar to meet with all parties concerned.


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