Secretary Blinken will travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 3-5, to participate in the foreign ministers’ meetings for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -United States Ministerial Meeting, the 12th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the 29th ASEAN Regional Forum.
At each meeting, the Secretary will emphasize the United States’ commitment to ASEAN centrality and support for the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. He will also address the COVID-19 pandemic, economic cooperation, the fight against climate change, maritime issues, including in the South China Sea, the escalating crisis in Burma, and Russia’s unjustified, unprovoked war in Ukraine.
The Secretary’s conversations will build upon the historic U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit hosted by President Biden in Washington, D.C., May 12-13, that demonstrated the United States’ enduring commitment to ASEAN, recognized ASEAN’s central role in delivering sustainable solutions to the region’s most pressing challenges, and commemorated 45 years of U.S.-ASEAN relations.
