56th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting | JAKARTA- Geopolitical rivalries on show as ASEAN hosts annual security gathering

President Joko Widodo greets Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the Courtesy Call at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta, July 14, 2023. (Reuters/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)

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Foreign ministers of two dozen countries meet in Jakarta on Friday with US-China rivalry, the war in Ukraine and North Korean missiles set to dominate roundtable talks in Southeast Asia’s annual security gathering.

Top diplomats from China, the United States and Russia were among those set to join Friday’s ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), where broad-based agendas are typically hijacked by the week’s geopolitical flare-ups, offering a theatre for fierce rebukes, superpower squabbles and occasional walk-outs.

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In opening remarks to foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said the gathering aimed to seek solutions rather than exacerbate regional and global problems.

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