Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Nguyen Thi Bich Hue at the online meeting to hand over the ACR Chairmanship (Photo: VNA)
Rome (VNA) - Vietnam handed over itschairmanship role at the ASEAN Committee in Rome (ACR) to Indonesia at an ACRmonthly meeting held on January 20.
In its six-month taking over the role starting from Julylast year, the Vietnamese Embassy in Italy worked with embassies of other ASEANmember states to sustain the ARC’s operations amid COVID-19. Seven ambassador-levelmeetings, activities to celebrate ASEAN’s founding anniversary and 12 othermeetings took place during the period.
Under Vietnam’s chairmanship, the committee continued to carryout ASEAN promotion activities such as a photo exhibition of ASEAN membernations in Rome and the 2nd Torino-ASEAN economic cooperation forum.
The Vietnamese Embassy also actively coordinated with ASEANcountries and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to implement the Italy-ASEANdevelopment partnership action plan via an initiative to organise an ASEAN-Italyconference of senior police officers and the organisation of training coursesfor the ASEAN and Italian police forces on civil protection as well as the preventionof cybercrime and cross-border organised crime, among others.
Participating ASEAN ambassadors praised Vietnam’s activecontributions to the effective performance of the ACR amid the pandemic.
The ARC groups embassies of Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia,Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippines in Italy./.
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Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Nguyen Thi Bich Hue at the online meeting to hand over the ACR Chairmanship (Photo: VNA) 
