VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese senior official urged the ASEAN to bolster solidarity and unity while raising its cooperation efficiency in order to achieve regional integrity and a regional community.
Addressing the 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM-40), Deputy Foreign Minister Le Cong Phung stressed that ASEAN needs to be more active and dynamic in its relations with other counterparts while improving cooperation with dialogue partners.
The group needs to uphold its leading role in the regional cooperation process to which it was the initiator, including ASEAN+3, East Asia Summit (EAS), and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and should work as a driving force behind other regional integration process in the Asia-Pacific region, he said.
In his speech, Deputy FM Phung emphasised the extreme importance of narrowing the development gap in the course of establishing the ASEAN Community.
He highlighted the results of the second IAI Development and Cooperation Forum in Hanoi and said these outcomes have contributed to building a new strategy to address the development disparity and better the implementation of the Initiative on ASEAN Integration (IAI) in the future.
Deputy FM Phung called on all ASEAN member countries, dialogue partners, regional and international organisations and private sectors to take active part in the group's endeavours to narrow the development gap within the bloc. (Source: VNA, VIet Nam Net) | 
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