Foreign Affairs Secretary Locsin to Participate in the G7-Asean Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting
10 December 2021 – Upon the invitation of the United Kingdom, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. will attend the ASEAN-G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting to be held on 12 December 2021 in Liverpool, UK.
Secretary Locsin is expected to exchange views with ASEAN and G7 Foreign Ministers on matters related to vaccine and global health security, infrastructure, technology, gender equality, shared security, and other regional and global issues of common concern.
This is the first engagement between ASEAN and the G7 at the foreign ministers’ level. ASEAN, together with Australia, India, and the Republic of Korea, have been invited as guests of the G7’s meeting in Liverpool.
The United Kingdom, which is the host of the meeting as well as the president of the G7 this year, became ASEAN’s 11th Dialogue Partner this year.
The Group of 7, or G7, is composed of the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, and Italy. The EU usually attends high-level meetings of the G7, including summits. END