Jan Sabah date for Asean Foreign Ministers
Published on: Tuesday, December 16, 2014
KOTA KINABALU: The Asean Foreign Ministers' Retreat will be held at The Magellan Sutera Resort, here, from Jan 27 to 28, three months preceding the two-day 26th Asean Summit to be chaired by Malaysia to be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on April 26 and 27. The retreat is the first in the series of Asean Foreign Ministers' Meetings and other related meetings under Malaysia's Asean Chairmanship in 2015. During the retreat, Asean Foreign Ministers are expected to discuss the priorities of Asean for 2015 and the Asean Community's Post-2015 Vision.
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This was revealed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak recently and he said that Malaysia would also host the 27th Asean Summit from Nov 19 till 21 as well as related meetings with Asean's seven dialogue partners including Japan, China, India and the United States before handing the chairmanship over to Laos. Malaysia was also Asean chairman in 1977 and 2005."Malaysia is all geared up to host the 26th Asean Summit, which promises a great meaning for Malaysia when the country assumes the Asean chairmanship next year," he said. "We aspire to carry out measures that are truly based on my vision of a 'people-centred Asean,".
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Najib said the goal of regional unity, stability and prosperity was not Malaysia's alone, rather it was a vision which Malaysia had committed to.There are speculations as to whether the Philippine Foreign Minister J. Malaya would attend the Asean Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Sabah which would show if the Philippines tacitly accepts Sabah as part of Malaysia, but Malaya's recent visit to Sabah voicing out for Filipinos shows that there is no problem doing so while Manila still did not renounce in finality its claim on Sabah.
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