Indonesia hosted the first major meeting for its 2023 ASEAN Chairmanship - the 32nd ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) meeting and the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ (AMM) Retreat.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son had short meetings with his counterparts to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral relations on the sideslines of the 32nd ASEAN Coordinating Council Meeting and the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ (AMM) Retreat in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh will attend an ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat to be virtually chaired by Brunei Foreign Minister Dato Erywan Pehin Yusol, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang at a regular press briefing of the ministry in Hanoi on January 14.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on January 17 presided over a retreat of the foreign ministers of the ASEAN countries (AMM Retreat), with the participation of the foreign ministers of other ASEAN members and the bloc’s Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi.