ASEAN-India, East Asia summits: V-P Jagdeep Dhankhar starts 3-day trip to Cambodia today

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar will be in Cambodia for a three-day trip starting November 11 to represent New Delhi at the ASEAN-India and the East Asia summits, officials said Thursday.

Nearly a week after the summits, the defence ministers of India and ASEAN will also be holding a meet, the first such engagement between the two sides which are celebrating 2022 as “friendship year” to mark 30 years of relations.

Addressing a special media briefing in New Delhi, Saurabh Kumar, Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs, said at the summits, leaders of the two sides will “take stock of the progress made and exchange views on the future course of our ties and the relationship in the coming decade.”