A coordination meeting among relevant Ministries under the three ASEAN Community Pil­lars was held yesterday on the development of the ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision in Nay Pyi Taw.

U Than Swe, Union Min­ister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of My­anmar, delivered the opening remarks expressing his satis­faction with the progress made by the High-Level Task Force on the ASEAN Community’s Post- 2025 Vision (HLTF-ACV) and encouraged the representatives from respective Ministries to identify the current and antici­pated challenges in respective sectors and to propose future actions in overcoming those challenges. The Union minister further stressed the need for the representatives to explore the future directions of ASEAN in line with the national plans of relevant Ministries to achieve national interest through re­gional cooperation.

Then, Dr Wah Wah Maung, Deputy Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Rela­tions and Eminent Person (EP) of Myanmar, briefed the meet­ing on the background, process, progress, challenges and future plan of the High-Level Task Force on the ASEAN Commu­nity’s Post-2025 Vision (HLTF-ACV) in the development of the ASEAN Vision 2045.

Afterwards, representa­tives from the relevant Minis­tries reviewed the progress and challenges of the implementing processes in their relevant sec­tors and shared their visions un­der the three ASEAN Communi­ty pillars. Representatives from 27 Ministries in total attended the meeting. — MNA