ACC Secretary-General Met with Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei

On 12 August 2017, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre(ACC) met with Mme. Emaleen Abdul Rahman Teo, Permanent Secretary and Senior Official of ASEAN affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei. Ms. Hong Mee Jien, Deputy Director of General Affairs and Coordination Division of ACC attended the meeting.
Permanent Secretary Mme. Emaleen Abdul Rahman Teo appreciated Secretary-General Yang Xiuping's attendance to the several activities including the ASEAN 50th Anniversary Exhibition and Trade Talk. She highly praised ACC’s positive contributions to ASEAN-China relations since its establishment. She indicated that ASEAN 50th Anniversary is an important milestone for the ASEAN development, and hoped that Brunei takes it as an opportunity to further promote the development of friendly relations between ASEAN countries as well as ASEAN and its dialogue partners. She said that ACC left her a deep impression of its efforts in pushing forward the cooperation in all areas between ASEAN and China. Brunei would continue to support and participate in the relative activities held by ACC to propel the relationships between Brunei and China as well as ASEAN and China to a new stage.
Secretary-General Yang Xiuping gave Mme. Emaleen a brief introduction on ACC’s work. She said that during the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting/Post Ministerial Conferences in Manila recently held, foreign ministers or their representatives of China and 10 ASEAN Member States attended the Signing Ceremony of the revised edition of Memorandum of Understanding on Establishing ACC between the Governments of the Member States of ASEAN and China which specified direction for better implementing ACC’s work in future. ACC would fully play the role as an one-stop information and activities centre to make more efforts for the development of China-ASEAN relations, and sincerely hoped that ACC would continuously receive great support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei.