35th ASEAN Summit begins in Bangkok

The 35th ASEAN Summit began today in Bangkok. The summit will continue till November 4. Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan -o-Cha inaugurated this summit at IMPACT convention complex. 

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a group of ten member countries that encourages political,economic and social co-operation in the region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend this summit on November 3rd and 4th. 

AIR Correspondent reports that Advancing Partnership for sustainability is the theme of the summit.

During five days summit East Asia summit (EAS)  and Regional Comprehensive



Economic Summit ( RCEP)  will be also  held. Apart from leaders of 10 Asean countries head of  Eight dialogue partner countries including India, USA China, Japan , republic of Korea , Australia and  New Zealand are also participating in the summit. 

The summit would  discuss comprehensive and sustainable ASEAN economic development and s on negotiations related to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) including market opening. 

The RCEP is a proposed free trade agreement( FTA) between the ten members state of ASEAN and its parter countries.The summit is likely to discuss security and cyber crime.