Phnom Penh (FN), Nov. 11 – Cambodian foreign minister Prak Sokhonn, on Thursday, presided over the launch of a book, entitled the “13th Asia-Europe Summit: Multilateral Cooperation for a Resilient, Sustainable, and Rules-Based Future for ASEM”.

The event was attended by professor Hidetoshi Nishimura, president of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and ambassadors of all ASEM Partner Countries, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

“It is a joint publication of the Royal Government of Cambodia and ERIA with the full blessing of Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen,” Sokhonn said.

“This book captures the ASEM’s ambition to navigate the organization through the common opportunities and challenges in today’s fast-changing world towards attaining an inclusive, sustainable, resilient and rule-based future for ASEM. It mainly highlights the pathway to reinvigorate multilateralism for a better and stronger Asia-Europe cooperation.”

“The book contains well thought through articles covering from Political and Physical Connectivity, Economic and Financial Cooperation, Institutional and People Linkage, to Sustainable development. It also provides useful ideas to move ASEM to its next Summit.”

“I am confident that this publication will serve as one of ASEM13’s significant achievement: a publication that can provide valuable inputs for all ASEM Partners and relevant stakeholders to effectively work together to transform ASEM into a dynamic, resilient, and sustainable community for the peoples of Asia and Europe in the next 25 years and beyond,” the minister underlined.

He continued that, during the past 25 years, ASEM has made remarkable institutional transformation and has dealt with complex regional and global issues that require close cooperation between countries of the two continents. However, ASEM has never had to deal with such unprecedented social, economic and health crisis of this global magnitude.
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