Cambodian FM to attend ASEAN FMs' meeting in Brunei

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will lead a delegation to attend the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and related meetings in Brunei from June 27 to July 2, according to a press statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. A series of meetings will include the 46th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' meeting, the Post Ministerial Conference, the 20th ASEAN Regional Forum, and the 3rd East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' meeting. According to the statement, the meetings will discuss ASEAN's future directions, regional architecture, external relations, exchanges of views on regional and international matters, and the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone, among others. At the upcoming event, there will be a signing ceremony of the Instrument of Accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia by Norway, it said. On the sidelines of those meetings, Hor Namhong will also hold bilateral talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, Timor-Leste Foreign Minister Jose Luis Guterres, and Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni. ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.