ASEAN Coordinating Council discuss ways to speed up decision-making process
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has said that ASEAN member countries are all aware of many difficult circumstances in the region. But they cannot allow the difficulties to affect their hard work in the 43rd ASEAN Summit and Related Meetings that take place in Jakarta from September 4-7.
Representatives from ASEAN countries at the ASEAN Coordinating Council's Meeting on September 4 in Jakarta. (Photo: VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesian ForeignMinister Retno Marsudi has sai♕d that ASEANmember countries are allaware of many difficult circumstances in the region. But they cannot allow the difficulties to affect their hard work in the 43rd ASEAN Summit and Related Meetings that take place in Jakarta f🅘rom September4-7.
Speaking at the ASEANCoordinating Council (ACC)’s 34th Meeting held in Jakarta on September 4 ahead ofthe summit, Retno said the challenges ASEAN are facing right now are already big enoughto keep them struggling at times, but the challenges they are facing in theupcoming years would be even greater.
Whether ASEAN can move forward or not entirelydepends oꦬf themselves, she said.
According to Retno, at the 43rd ASEAN Summit, ASEAN will adopt many important decisions that wouldchart the future of ASEAN as a community and an institution.
This includes measuresto expedite the ASEAN decision-making process in crises and emergencysituations and measures to strengthen ASEAN capacity to respond to emergingchallenges in the region.
It is ver♐y importantthat the ACC can recommend the best course o🦂f action for ASEAN leaders to decide as well as to maintain that ASEAN matters to people and the world, she said./.
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Representatives from ASEAN countries at the ASEAN Coordinating Council's Meeting on September 4 in Jakarta. (Photo: VNA) 
