ASEAN calls for enhancing women's role amid pandemic

HANOI: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has convened the bloc's first-ever Women Leader's summit via video link, discussing women's role in the its development amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The event, held within the framework of the 37th ASEAN Summit and related summits, offered the group's leaders a chance to talk with female leaders in the region and at international organizations about how to further uphold their role in the process of building the ASEAN Community following the pandemic.

Speaking at the event, Vietnamese PM Nguyen XuanPhuc described women as an indispensable part of the process of building peace and sustainable security. The Vietnamese leader wished that the summit would offer important orientations to help women contribute more widely and effectively to the process of building the ASEAN Community as well as actively join efforts to ensure peace, security, as well as sustainable and inclusive development in the region. (IANS)

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