New Delhi: Amid growing concerns over security and terror threats across the world, the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), to be attended by External Affairs Minister S M Krishna in Thailand, will come out with a comprehensive Work Plan to deal with the menace.
Krishna left here today to take part in the two-day
meeting in Phuket, which is also expected to discuss global
economic crisis and food and energy security.
Progress on the negotiations for Free Trade Agreement
between India and ASEAN is also expected to be reviewed during
the three-day visit of Krishna.
The Work Plan is aimed at committing the 26 member
countries to make efforts towards concrete, capacity-building
efforts, technical support and information exchange.
The meeting will also discuss other global and regional
challenges like food and energy security, climate change,
regional security, nuclear non-proliferation, disaster
management and prevention and control of pandemics.
The ARF meet will issue a Vision Statement, outlining the
roadmap to give a fillip to cooperation among the member
countries.
The ministerial meeting of the ASEAN and ARF will set
the agenda for the Summit to be held in Thailand in October.
Bureau Report
