Turkish foreign minister to virtually attend ASEAN meeting

ANKARA

Turkey's foreign minister is set to attend a meeting on Thursday with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) via videoconference.

According to a statement on Wednesday by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Mevlut Cavusoglu will participate at the "third ASEAN–Turkey Sectoral Dialogue Partnership Trilateral Meeting" on Aug. 19.

"ASEAN Chair Brunei Darussalam's II. Minister of Foreign Affairs Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof and ASEAN Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi will attend the meeting," said the statement.

The meeting will address the current state of Turkey-ASEAN relations as well as concrete cooperation proposals for the upcoming period.

ASEAN -- a regional bloc of 10 countries including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam -- was founded on Aug. 8, 1967, in Bangkok.

ANKARA

Turkey's foreign minister is set to attend a meeting on Thursday with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) via videoconference.

According to a statement on Wednesday by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Mevlut Cavusoglu will participate at the "third ASEAN–Turkey Sectoral Dialogue Partnership Trilateral Meeting" on Aug. 19.

"ASEAN Chair Brunei Darussalam's II. Minister of Foreign Affairs Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof and ASEAN Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi will attend the meeting," said the statement.

The meeting will address the current state of Turkey-ASEAN relations as well as concrete cooperation proposals for the upcoming period.

ASEAN -- a regional bloc of 10 countries including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam -- was founded on Aug. 8, 1967, in Bangkok.