New Delhi sources have stated that on account of the ASEAN India Commemorative Summit, which marks the partnership between India and ASEAN, the summit will be attended by the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her visit of the year to three Southeast Asian countries Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore from January 4 to 8.
Sources have added that on the first leg of the visit, Swaraj will be in Thailand on January 4 and 5, where she will hold an official meeting with Thailand’s Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai, who will also host a dinner and will assume the role of coordinator country for India-ASEAN relations in the middle of 2018.
Moreover Sushma will call on Indonesia President
Joko Widodo, besides other official engagements. Furthermore during
her visit to Singapore she will inaugurate the Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
of ASEAN countries on January 7 and will have bilateral meets with leaders in
Singapore, besides interactions with delegations of persons of Indian origin
from ASEAN countries who are participating in the PBD.
