New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday prolonged greetings to the ASEAN member states on the 59th ASEAN Day, reaffirming India’s dedication to deepening ties with the regional bloc via connectivity, commerce, digital linkages, resilient provide chains, defence, training and cultural exchanges.
In a put up on X, Jaishankar stated, ‘Finest needs to our @ASEAN buddies on the 59th ASEAN Day.’ He added that the ties guided by India’s Act East Coverage, the India-ASEAN Complete Strategic Partnership, ‘proceed to deepen’ throughout key areas.
He stated, ‘Guided by our #ActEast Coverage, our Complete Strategic Partnership continues to deepen via connectivity, commerce, digital linkages, resilient provide chains, defence, training and cultural exchanges.’
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‘Assured that India-ASEAN ties will proceed to develop in substance and ambition, contributing to the peace, stability and prosperity of the broader Indo-Pacific area,’ he added.
Earlier in July, Jaishankar co-chaired the ‘ASEAN Put up-Ministerial Convention with India 2026’ in Manila, throughout which India and ASEAN mentioned strengthening their partnership and cooperation throughout the Indo-Pacific.
In the meantime, in Jakarta, ASEAN Secretary Common Kao Kim Hourn officiated the 59th ASEAN Day celebrations on the ASEAN Headquarters/ASEAN Secretariat, in line with an official press launch on the ASEAN web site.
In his welcome remarks, Kao stated this yr’s commemoration marks ‘three important milestones’ in ASEAN’s journey: Timor-Leste turning into ASEAN’s eleventh Member State, the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), and the primary yr of implementation of ‘ASEAN Imaginative and prescient 2045: Our Shared Future.’
The celebration was held below the theme ‘Navigating Our Future, Collectively.’
The occasion featured pre-recorded remarks by Philippine President Ferdinand R Marcos Jr, whereas Indonesian Overseas Minister Sugiono additionally attended and delivered an ASEAN Day handle.
Because the regional bloc’s 59th founding anniversary was noticed within the Indian capital (New Delhi), the long-lasting, centuries-old Qutub Minar monument in New Delhi was illuminated within the colors of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday night.
In line with the Embassy of the Philippines in India, based by 5 nations on August 8, 1967, ASEAN is now a neighborhood bringing collectively all 11 Southeast Asian nations: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.
With a mixed inhabitants of over 700 million and a GDP of over USD 4 trillion, it could rank fifth largest financial system on the earth, taken as a unit. Earlier than over 80 diplomats from ASEAN Member States’ diplomatic missions and an enormous throng of the location’s common guests, the UNESCO World Heritage website lit up with the long-lasting rice-stalk emblem of the Affiliation, accentuated by the group’s signature blue, purple, and yellow, because the ASEAN anthem solemnly performed over the monument’s grounds.
The illumination of the Qutub Minar marked the first-ever such projection of ASEAN’s cherished symbols onto any main nationwide monument around the globe. The occasion was conceptualised and organised by the Philippine Embassy in India, which at the moment holds the ASEAN New Delhi Committee’s (ANDC) rotating semestral chairmanship, the Embassy said.
ASEAN and India instituted sectoral dialogue relations in 1992. Three many years later, in 2022, the connection was elevated to a thriving Complete Strategic Partnership.
Underneath their Complete Strategic Partnership, ASEAN and India cooperate on a variety of points, together with commerce and funding, tourism, connectivity, agriculture, vitality, tradition, expertise, training, and people-to-people exchanges, the Embassy affirmed.
Highlighting the occasion on X, the Embassy stated, ‘The historic Qutub Minar was lit up within the colors of the ASEAN flag tonight to have a good time the 59th founding anniversary of the 11-member bloc on 08 August 2026.’
Moreover, Singapore’s Excessive Commissioner to India, Simon Wong, on Friday additionally marked ASEAN Day by celebrating the first-ever illumination of the ASEAN flag on Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar, highlighting the shut partnership between ASEAN member states and India.
Sharing photos of the occasion on X, Wong wrote, ‘Very completely satisfied to have a good time #ASEAN Day with our ANDC Household in New Delhi with the first-ever @ASEAN flag illumination of the #QutubMinar. Many due to our Philippines Chair.’ (ANI)
