Jakarta (Indonesia), Mar 27 (AP) The Philippines will shift online around 650 meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including those by its foreign ministers, in a drastic move to save money owing to the ongoing crisis due to the war in the Middle East.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, this year’s ASEAN chair, said only an annual summit hosted by the Philippines in May will be conducted face-to-face, but even that will be stripped of the pomp and pageantry in “a very bare-bones summit”.
“ASEAN meetings cannot be impervious to the complex adversities that the bloc has to overcome,” Executive Secretary Ralph Recto said. (AP) ARB ARB
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