OPINION | ACADEMIA- A mute secretary-general undermines ASEAN centrality | The Jakarta Post
ASEAN secretary-general Lim Jock Hoi (left) greets Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo during the ASEAN leaders’ summit at the bloc’s secretariat building in Jakarta on April 24, 2021. (Handout/Muchlis Jr/Indonesian Presidential Palace via REUTERS)
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ASEAN has just weeks to go to relay the message that it is important to stop the war in Ukraine, before the Group of 20 Summit is held in Bali from Nov. 14 to 16.
With ASEAN against all forms of territorial aggression, not to mention annexation, the fact that ASEAN secretary-general Lim Jock Hoi, who has ministerial standing, refrains from saying anything substantive on the Ukraine-Russian conflict is unacceptable.
Memento Maxima Digital Marketing @Even China has spoken of the need to end the war. As did all other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which include the United Kingdom, France and the United States.
The fact that UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose premiership is about to come to an abrupt end, has spoken out against the war, while the ASEAN secretary-general, who has only two months left in his five-year tenure, does not know how to take a stance on behalf of ASEAN is mind-boggling.
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Phar Kim Beng
(The Jakarta Post)
Kuala Lumpur
● Fri, October 21, 2022
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