VietNamNet
Bridge – The present Secretary General
of ASEAN, Mr. Surin Pitsuwan, said that ASEAN welcomes the designation of the
Vietnamese Deputy Minister as the next Secretary General.
“ASEAN
welcomes the designation of the Vice Minister of Vietnam as the next Secretary
General and I feel relieved already,” Mr. Surin Pitsuwan told correspondents on
the sideline of the ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this morning.
It is
said that Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh will be appointed as
the next ASEAN Secretary General later this year.
Mr.
Minh will replace the current Secretary General, Mr. Surin Pitsuwan – former
Foreign Minister of Thailand, when his term ends at the end of 2012.
Mr.
Minh, 60, has been Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister since December 2008.
He has
been Vietnam’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) since January 2004.
Earlier,
he was the assistant to the Foreign Minister, chief of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs’ Multilateral Economic Cooperation Department, a lecturer at the
Institute for International Relations of Vietnam, the Second and then the First
Secretary of the Vietnamese delegation to the UN and international organization
in Geneva and the Vietnamese Ambassador, Head of the Vietnamese delegation to
the UN in Geneva.
It is
expected that ASEAN leaders will approve the designation at the ASEAN Summit in
Phnom Penh in November. Mr. Minh will take office in January 2013.
Thuy Chung
(from Phnom Penh)
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