Within the framework of her official visit to Indonesia,
Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Ana Cecilia Gervasi submitted a formal request to the
Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Kao Kim Hourn, for Peru's entry into this Asian bloc as a "Development Partner."
At the meeting with the senior Asian official, the Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed that Peru seeks to forge closer links with ASEAN.
Moreover, Minister Gervasi stressed the correspondence between values such as development, cooperation, and peace.
Likewise, she presented the potential to explore a common agenda between this block and the initiatives of the Peruvian Presidency in the
Pacific Alliance and the
APEC Forum in 2024.
Intense working day
As part of her work agenda in Jakarta, the Peruvian government official held meetings with counterparts from countries attending the
43rd ASEAN Summit in order to strengthen ties with the Asian bloc, within the framework of the Peruvian Presidency of the Pacific Alliance and APEC in 2024.
Similarly, she met with
Sok Chenda Sophea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia, with whom she signed a
Memorandum for the Establishment of Bilateral Consultations, in order to strengthen ties between both countries.
In addition, during a working meeting with her
Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan, the Cabinet member stressed the importance of the
Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed with Singapore, which entered into force in 2009 and has helped improve bilateral trade between the two countries.
Moreover, she expressed Peru's interest in further deepening ties at political, environmental, multilateral, and cooperation levels.
For his part, Minister Balakrishnan expressed his country's support for Peru's entry into ASEAN as a "Development Partner."
Within the framework of her working day, Minister Gervasi and her Indonesian counterpart,
Retno Marsudi, discussed the opportunities to enrich the bilateral, regional, and multilateral agenda, and deemed as positive Peru's interest in integrating ASEAN as a "Development Partner."
On Sunday, Minister Gervasi held a meeting with
Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong, in which she remarked that the Pro-Tempore Presidency of the Pacific Alliance promotes the ratification of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the bloc's members and Singapore, which helps strengthen Peru's participation in the Asia-Pacific value chains in favor of trade and investment.
Furthermore, the two authorities discussed the implementation and use of the CPTPP and investment opportunities in Peru.
(END) NDP/RMB
Publicado: 4/9/2023