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Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | EU chief Charles Michel said Saturday the bloc expected China to use “all the means at its disposal” to push Moscow to respect international law, days before a G20 summit expected to be dominated by the conflict in Ukraine. The European Council president was speaking on the sidelines of a regional summit in Cambodia, where Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged Southeast Asian leaders to support Kyiv. While China […]
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Russia on Monday denied “as the highest level of fake” reports that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had been hospitalised on his visit to Indonesia for the G20 summit. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a video of the 72-year-old diplomat in a T-shirt and shorts along with her. They were shown laughing in the video after several media reported that he was in hospital. “We’re here with Sergei Viktorovich (Lavrov) […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | Russia’s foreign minister on Sunday accused the United States of driving increased militarisation in Southeast Asia, saying that Washington was trying to contain Beijing and Moscow’s influence in the region. Sergei Lavrov was speaking to reporters at Phnom Penh’s airport after attending the East Asia Summit in Cambodia — and before flying to Bali for the G20 summit where China’s leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden […]
(COURTESY: EAC NEWS) PHNOM PENH: The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced that he has requested US $850 million in assistance for Southeast Asia for 2023. Prime Minister Hun Sen and President Joe Biden presided over the 10th ASEAN-US Summit held at the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh on Saturday, 12 November. During his opening remarks, President Biden said that he was happy to attend the third ASEAN-US Summit of his presidency, […]
Sat, Nov 12, 2022 10:17 AM H.E. Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, arrives at Phnom Penh International Airport this morning to attend the 17th East Asia Summit and Related Summits hosted by Cambodia. Photo: Kol Renny, Sous Savy & Lanh Visal – AKP
Arrival of U.S. President H.E. Joe Biden at Phnom Penh International Airport Sat, Nov 12, 2022 9:22 AM President of the United States of America H.E. Joe Biden disembarks from a special aircraft upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport this morning to attend the 10th ASEAN-U.S. Summit and 17th East Asia Summit (EAS) in Phnom Penh capital city. Photo: Kol Renny, Sous Savy & Lanh Visal – AKP
Speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Cambodia, Indonesian President Joko Widodo says the Southeast Asian bloc must not be ‘held hostage’ to the situation in Myanmar, which has been under military rule since a coup last year.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | by Damon WAKE Southeast Asian leaders agreed Friday to engage Myanmar opposition groups as they seek ways to quell the country’s escalating bloodshed which has seen thousands killed in clashes since last year’s coup. The Myanmar crisis dominated the first day of a gathering of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc in Phnom Penh that US President Joe Biden will join on Saturday. Myanmar has […]
Beijing, China | AFP | Xi Jinping will attend the G20 summit in Indonesia next week and meet his US counterpart Joe Biden, Beijing’s foreign ministry confirmed on Friday, in their first in-person talks since the Chinese president sealed a historic third term as leader last month. The two met prior to Biden taking office in January 2021 and have spoken by phone a number of times since then, but the Covid-19 pandemic and […]
Manila, Philippines | AFP | Seven people have been killed in fighting between the Philippine military and Muslim rebels in the country’s south, authorities said Thursday, in one of the deadliest clashes since a landmark peace pact was signed in 2014. The ongoing fighting broke out Tuesday in Basilan island province, off the main southern island of Mindanao, following what the military said was a “miscommunication” between its soldiers and members of the Moro Islamic […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | Southeast Asian leaders agreed on Friday to allow East Timor to join the 10-nation ASEAN regional bloc, according to a statement released by summit host Cambodia. “We the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations… agreed in principle to admit Timor-Leste to be the 11th member of ASEAN,” the statement said. East Timor is the youngest country in Southeast Asia, having gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 […]
