Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-58) issued a joint communiqué emphasising the importance of a rules-based, predictable, transparent, inclusive, free, fair, and sustainable multilateral trading system, with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at its core.

As regional tensions escalate and strategic uncertainties mount across Asia-Pacific, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has called on the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) to promote reforms to maintain its role and respond proactively and flexibly to evolving challenges.