Washington, 2President Joe Biden of the United States (US) will host the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for a special summit in Washington in March 2022, the White House announced today.
The meeting of the 10-member ASEAN will be held during 28 and 29 March 2022 and is being billed by the White House as an opportunity to demonstrate the US commitment to the bloc and a chance to mark 45 years of US-ASEAN relations.
The ASEAN nations are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
ASEAN barred Myanmar’s military-installed government leadership from the last annual summit in October, instead restricting the nation’s participation to non-political representatives. That policy is expected to remain in place for the March summit, according to a Biden administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly.
Source: Oman News Agency