{"id":37177,"date":"2021-06-30T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37177"},"modified":"2021-06-30T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T01:10:41","slug":"asean-regional-forum-senior-officials-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37177","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN Regional Forum Senior Officials\u2019 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>06\/30\/2021 03:13 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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 participated in a Senior Officials Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) on June 28. Senior Bureau Official Moy emphasized the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s priority to revitalize our multilateral partnerships to advance our shared prosperity, security, and values in the Indo-Pacific.\u00a0 He highlighted ongoing U.S. support for ASEAN, the ARF, and the East Asia Summit, and underscored the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s commitment to ASEAN centrality and ASEAN\u2019s essential role in the Indo-Pacific\u2019s architecture. He noted that the administration is looking forward to sustained engagement with our partners and allies in ASEAN and throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bureau Official Moy drew attention to U.S. efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing more than 500 million vaccine doses, and $2 billion to Gavi in support of COVAX to buy vaccines for the world.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bureau Official Moy called for greater transparency and support for the rules-based international order in the region, including in the South China Sea. \u00a0Moy also emphasized U.S. efforts to combat transnational crime in the Mekong sub-region through the Mekong-U.S. Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Bureau Official Moy discussed important regional issues, including efforts to press the Burmese military to cease violence, adhere to ASEAN\u2019s five-point consensus, and provide for a swift return to democracy; China\u2019s human rights abuses in Xinjiang, its undermining of democracy in Hong Kong, and its destabilizing actions in the South China Sea and Mekong subregion; as well as our goal of the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/30\/2021 03:13 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#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-37177","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\/37177","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=37177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37178,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37177\/revisions\/37178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}