Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith atteded to the roundtable meeting Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith arrived to the meeting place

Family Photo of ASEM Leaders

Mr. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council (Left) and Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (Right)

The bilateral meeting with Ms Helga Maria Schmid, Secretary General of European External Action Service

The bilateral meeting with Ms Marise Payne, Foreign Minister of Australia

The Bilateral meeting with Mr.Péter Szijjártó, Foreign Minister of Hungary

On October 18-19, 2018, Mr.Saleumxay Kommasith, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lao PDR,attended the 12^th Asia- Europe Meeting (ASEM12) in Brussels, Belgium under the theme “Global Partners for Global Challenges”

Presented at the meeting were Head of States and Governments or their high-level representatives of 51 Asian and European countries, the President of the European Commission and Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

During the meeting, Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith, delivered his speech, emphasized that “ASEM should intensively enhanced its cooperation, particularly in the fields of connectivity economic cooperation in order to narrow the development gap among the member countries”.

On the sideline to the meeting, Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith also had bilateral meetings with his counterparts from EU, Australia and Hungary respectively.