July 2015 ASEAN Regional Meetings

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There are a number of important ASEAN regional meetings taking place in July, including the ASEAN-European Union Senior Officials’ Meeting taking place in Brussels, and the 7th Meeting of the High Level Task Force (HLTF) on ASEAN Community’s Post-2015 Vision taking place in Singapore. Please see below for additional important meetings for this month.

July 1-2: ASEAN-European Union Senior Officials’ Meeting

July 6-9: 7th Meeting of the High Level Task Force (HLTF) on ASEAN Community’s Post-2015 Vision

July 26: 11th meeting of the High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration (HLTF-EI) Working Group (HLTF-EI WG) on Post 2015 Economic Vision

July 27-31: 3rd Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Economic Officials’ for the 46th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting (SEOM 3/46) and Related Meetings

Additionally, the following events have been tentatively planned for July but have not yet been issued with an official date:

  • Prep Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) for the ASEAN-New Zealand Commemorative Summit 2015
  • Traditional Medicines and Health Supplements (TMHS) Intersessional Meeting 2
  • 9th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) and related meetings

For the full timetable of ASEAN Meetings in 2015, please see the official ASEAN Notional Calendar.


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