Phnom Penh (FN), Nov. 26 – Pursuant to the leaders’ decision at the 12th ASEM Summit, that further work on connectivity should be pursued in the framework of the future senior officials meetings based on the ASEM Pathfinder Group on Connectivity’s (APGC) final report, it is proposed that ASEM’s Regional Coordinators, working with ASEM’s SOM leaders, could facilitate the exchange of information and improve forward planning of ASEM-wide Connectivity activities.

The Summit was hosted by the Kingdom of Cambodia and chaired by Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen.

"ASEM has taken pride in involving its various stakeholders in activities that promote dialogue and cooperation to build on its political, economic and socio-cultural pillars. ASEM’s unique and informal process has allowed it to achieve considerable progress in the field of connectivity in past years, namely – a definition of ASEM connectivity, and ASEM Tangible Areas of Cooperation in the Field of Connectivity (TACCs) – without creating any new formal structures or decision-making procedures," according to the document on the Way Forward on ASEM Connectivity seen by Fresh News on Friday.

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