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Marking the 30th anniversary of India-ASEAN dialogue relations and the 10th anniversary of the country’s strategic partnership with ASEAN, India will host the Special ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ meeting on June 16-17. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will co-chair the meeting. ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ meetings are hosted by the ASEAN chair on an annual basis. This will be the first Special ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ meeting to be hosted by India in New Delhi. It will be preceded by the 24th India-ASEAN senior officials meeting which will take place on June 15. The 12th edition of the Delhi Dialogue will also be hosted by India on June 16-17. The theme of the Delhi Dialogue is “Building Bridges in the Indo-Pacific.” About ASEAN: ASEAN officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a political and economic union of 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration between its members and countries in Asia-Pacific. Member nations are: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Founded: 8 August 1967 Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia
