{"id":36856,"date":"2021-06-24T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36856"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T23:44:08","slug":"east-asia-summit-senior-officials-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36856","title":{"rendered":"East Asia Summit Senior Officials\u2019 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>06\/24\/2021 02:36 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bureau Official\u00a0for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kin Moy\u00a0met on June 24 with\u00a0senior officials from the East Asia Summit (EAS) nations and Deputy Secretary General of ASEAN for Political-Security Community Michael Tene during the East Asia Summit (EAS) Senior Officials\u2019 Meeting. \u00a0Senior Bureau Official Moy reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to ASEAN and the EAS, highlighting the strong U.S. support for ASEAN centrality and for ASEAN-centered institutions. \u00a0He discussed the importance of upholding the rules-based international order, and reiterated U.S. support for the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bureau Official\u00a0Moy outlined U.S. assistance to combat COVID-19, including the historic announcement that the U.S. will donate more than 500 million vaccine doses globally. \u00a0He stressed the importance of taking bold action to address the climate crisis, with an emphasis on ambitious 2030 emissions reductions targets, a shared effort to reach zero emissions by 2050, and the importance of a green recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing concerns over escalating tension in the South China Sea,\u00a0Senior Bureau Official Moy reiterated U.S. support for freedom of navigation and overflight.\u00a0 He underscored the U.S. rejection of the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s unlawful maritime claims in the South China Sea and underscored U.S. support for Southeast Asian claimants\u2019 lawful efforts to access their own maritime resources.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bureau Official Moy also highlighted the ongoing work of the Mekong-U.S. Partnership to promote transparency, autonomy, and inclusive growth in the Mekong sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bureau Official Moy urged ASEAN to take immediate action to hold the Burmese regime accountable to the ASEAN five-point consensus.\u00a0 He called for joint action to press the Burmese military to end the violence, release those unjustly detained, and restore Burma to the path of democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/24\/2021 02:36 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36857,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36856\/revisions\/36857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}