Special ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (Special ASEAN SOM) for the Preparations for the 21st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits

Special ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (Special ASEAN SOM) for the Preparations for the 21st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits

Phnom Penh, 23 October 2012

Under Cambodia’s ASEAN Chairmanship, on 22-23 October 2012, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia convened the Special ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (Special ASEAN SOM) for the Preparations for the 21st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits.

Delegations from all ASEAN Member States, and the ASEAN Secretariat attended the Meeting.

The Meeting discussed the preparations for the 21st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits, including deliberations on Summit-related documents, such as the draft Phnom Penh Statement on the Adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, draft ASEAN Leaders’ Joint Statement on the Establishment of the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Centre, draft Bali Concord III Plan of Action, draft Joint Statement of the Heads of State/Government of the ASEAN Member States and the People’s Republic of China on the 10th Anniversary of DOC, draft Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-US Leaders’ Meeting, draft ASEAN Plus Three Leaders’ Joint Statement on the Commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation, draft Leaders’ Statement on ASEAN Plus Three Partners on Connectivity, draft Phnom Penh Declaration on East Asia Summit Development Initiative, and draft Declaration of the 7th East Asia Summit on Resistance to Antimalarial Medicines.

In addition, while exchanging views on regional and international issues, the Meeting touched on the Zero Draft of the Regional Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC).

Source: ASEAN2012