The ASEAN Future Forum 2025, set to take place on February 25 and 26 in Hà Nội, will progressively establish its brand value and solidify its position as a key platform for ASEAN dialogue.

The ASEAN Future Forum 2025 (AFF 2025), with the theme Building a United, Inclusive, and Resilient ASEAN amidst Global Transformation, will take place in Hà Nội on February 25-26.

The forum, set to take place in Hà Nội on February 25-26, serves as a vital complementary platform to ASEAN's formal mechanisms and summits, enhancing participation from governments, NGOs, businesses, and citizens.

ASEAN Future Forum 2025 demonstrates Việt Nam's maturity in ASEAN participation -- not just as a participant but as an active contributor to the ASEAN Community through concrete and practical initiatives like this forum

Minister of Public Security General Lương Tam Quang called on the Vietnamese ministry and Kazakhstan’s police and security agencies to negotiate and sign agreements on crime prevention cooperation to provide a legal framework for law enforcement collaboration; create favourable conditions for citizens of the two nations to enter, exit, reside, study and work in the territory of the other country.

ASEAN must always be bear in mind that centrality is not a right, but a privilege, that has to be re-earned and re-earned.

New Zealand was the second country to have established dialogue relations with ASEAN back in 1975 and New Zealand believes in ASEAN centrality, as well as the convening power for dialogue in the region through ASEAN.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim requested committees and coordination mechanisms between the two countries to concretise the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership into specific plans and actions for immediate implementation and early results.

The two leaders highly valued the positive progress in bilateral relations, particularly in trade and investment cooperation, highlighting that successful business and investment activities of Telemor, a brand of Việt Nam's military-run telecom group Viettel in Timor Leste, have made significant contributions to the Southeast Asian nation’s socio-economic development, and creating jobs for local labourers.

Now more than ever, ASEAN must strengthen its solidarity, self-reliance, and resilience to ensure the bloc’s prosperous development for the benefit of its people, PM Chính stated.

Preparing for the new phase of development, Deputy PM Bùi Thanh Sơn said that ASEAN member states, together with the Secretariat, should make further efforts to fully and effectively complete the roadmaps and plans already outlined, along with reviewing and evaluating their implementation processes. This would serve as a foundation for the building and more effective implementation of new visions and development plans.

Deputy PM Bùi Thanh Sơn recommended both sides actively implement the visit’s outcomes, including the action plan for Việt Nam-India comprehensive strategic partnership for 2024-28.

In order to effectively implement the high-level agreements between the two parties and the two countries, both sides agreed to continue to enhance comprehensive cooperation in all fields, with a focus on strengthening connectivity, especially in infrastructure and road, railway, and maritime transportation, thereby increasing trust, people-to-people exchanges, and cooperation.