Foreign adviser off to Malaysia to attend ASEAN Regional Forum

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday (July 9) left Dhaka for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

Adviser Hossain, who left Dhaka this (Wednesday) noon, is scheduled to return on July 12, said a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The 32nd ARF will be held on July 10 and July 11, reports UNB.

Bangladesh is one of the partners of the multilateral security forum, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum.

A forum of diverse nations, ARF’s aim is to maintain peace and security in the Asia Pacific region through the process of dialogues and consultations.

Bangladesh was officially admitted to this forum at the inaugural session of the 13th Annual Ministerial Meeting of ARF partners, held in Kuala Lumpur on July 28, 2006.

The 26th ASEAN ministerial meeting and post ministerial conference, which were held in Singapore on July 23-25, 1993, agreed to establish the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

The inaugural meeting of the ARF was held in Bangkok on July 25, 1994.