Delegates begin arriving for Asean Summit
SEPANG: Malaysia is receiving a wave of diplomatic arrivals today as delegates gather in Kuala Lumpur for the upcoming 46th Asean Summit and related meetings.
Among the early arrivals was the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State, Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, who landed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 2.16pm.
Also arriving today were Asean secretary-general Dr Kao Kim Hourn at 2.40pm, followed by Saudi Arabia's Deputy International Multilateral Affairs Minister, Abdulrahman Al-Rassi, at 3pm.
Timor-Leste's Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister, Bendito dos Santos Freitas, arrived at 5pm, while Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Bui Thanh Son, landed at 5.45pm.
The 46th Asean Summit will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on May 26 and 27, alongside the second Asean-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit and the inaugural Asean-GCC-China Summit.
The summit will bring together leaders from Asean member states to deliberate on regional developments and chart the future direction of the regional bloc.
This marks Malaysia's fifth time chairing Asean, following previous terms in 1977, 1997, 2005 and 2015.
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