PM Pham Minh Chinh attends the second ASEAN Global Dialogue on November 13. (Photo: VNA) The event was attended by leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and partner countries, along with some international organisations suchas the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB), the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the EconomicResearch Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
Participants exchanged multi-dimensional views on prospectsand challenges to the global economy, impacts on the region, and ASEAN’s visionand development orientations to ensure comprehensive recovery and lay thefoundation for sustainable, resilient, and inclusive development.
In his remarks, PM Chinh emphasised that amid numerous risksin the external environment, ASEAN remains a bright spot in socio-economicrecovery and development thanks to its spirit of cooperation and solidarity.
To secure a more resilient and sustainable ASEAN in thefuture, he suggested several cooperation priorities, including ensuring thestrategic balance among growth, inflation, and employment, and paying due attentionto macro-economic stability; maintaining stable supply chains after thepandemic by diversifying markets and products, facilitating trade and customsprocedures in tandem with guaranteeing food and energy security; promotinghuman resource development, taking people as the goal, resource, and momentumfor development; increasing strategic infrastructure connectivity; boostinggreen recovery with a just approach in which developed countries providefinancial assistance and transfer technology; and ensuring the harmony amongeconomic development, environmental protection, and social security.
As an active member of ASEAN, Vietnam is ready to contributeto common efforts to build an ASEAN of inclusive, sustainable, and resilientdevelopment, thus greatly contributing to global peace, stability, anddevelopment, the PM stated.
At the dialogue, participants shared the view on the growingchallenges intertwined with risks in both short and long terms in the globaleconomic environment.
They said ASEAN has been showing its enduring resilience witha stable macro-foundation, which has actively contributed to global economicgrowth.
They held that in the current context, it is necessary topush ahead with cooperation, solidarity, and joint efforts to resolve commonchallenges; ensure the balance between the targets of growth recovery in theshort term and sustainable development in the long term; maximise newdevelopment chances created by green growth, energy transition, digitalconnectivity, innovation, and inclusive growth.
Many delegates pointed out the need to build an inclusive, resilient,and sustainable ASEAN Community by concurrently bringing into play the bloc’scapacity, consolidating cooperative ties with international partners, and continuingto uphold its centrality in regional and global economic linkages.
Development partners and international financialorganisations continued to affirm their commitments to and coordination withASEAN in economic recovery and implementation of development agendas throughfinancial, technological, and technical assistance.
The first ASEAN Global Dialogue took place in 2012 on theoccasion of the 21st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits at theinitiative of Chair Cambodia at that time. The dialogue offers a chance for leaders of ASEAN,partners, and international organisations to discuss regional and globalissues, along with the bloc’s vision, priorities, and role./.
At the dialogue, participants shared the view on the growingchallenges intertwined with risks in both short and long terms in the globaleconomic environment.
They said ASEAN has been showing its enduring resilience witha stable macro-foundation, which has actively contributed to global economicgrowth.
They held that in the current context, it is necessary topush ahead with cooperation, solidarity, and joint efforts to resolve commonchallenges; ensure the balance between the targets of growth recovery in theshort term and sustainable development in the long term; maximise newdevelopment chances created by green growth, energy transition, digitalconnectivity, innovation, and inclusive growth.
Many delegates pointed out the need to build an inclusive, resilient,and sustainable ASEAN Community by concurrently bringing into play the bloc’scapacity, consolidating cooperative ties with international partners, and continuingto uphold its centrality in regional and global economic linkages.
Development partners and international financialorganisations continued to affirm their commitments to and coordination withASEAN in economic recovery and implementation of development agendas throughfinancial, technological, and technical assistance.
The first ASEAN Global Dialogue took place in 2012 on theoccasion of the 21st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits at theinitiative of Chair Cambodia at that time. The dialogue offers a chance for leaders of ASEAN,partners, and international organisations to discuss regional and globalissues, along with the bloc’s vision, priorities, and role./.
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