56th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meet-Geopolitics | JAKARTA- ASEAN urges major powers to back peace

From left to right ) Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son shakes hands with Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee Wang Yi beside Philippines’ Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Zambry Abdul Kadir as they take their positions for a group photo session during the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference with China at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta on July 13, 2023.(AFP/Tatan Syuflana)

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ASEAN chair Indonesia laid essential groundwork in asserting the policy of de-escalation and renunciation of nuclear weapons in a string of back-to-back meetings on Thursday, ahead of security talks with representatives of some of the region’s most powerful countries on Friday.

But with tensions rising in the Indo-Pacific, where ASEAN continues to negotiate its central role, the bloc is being asked to manage expectations that rival superpowers will respect its norms when even some of its most reasonable frameworks for maintaining peace and stability have stalled.

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Southeast Asia’s top diplomats regularly meet with their cohorts from 11 dialogue partners in a series of so-called post-ministerial conferences (PMCs) to fill out some of the region’s most important partnerships behind closed doors.

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