President Yong holds a gathering with the Prime Minister of Cambodia immediately… Restart summit diplomacy
President Yoon Seok-yeol will maintain a summit assembly with the Prime Minister of Cambodia on the sixteenth to debate methods to develop relations between the 2 international locations.
President Yoon, who has but to make an abroad journey this yr, is predicted to restart summit diplomacy within the second half of the yr after holding the upcoming Korea-China-Japan summit and Korea-Africa summit.
In line with the Presidential Workplace, President Yoon will maintain a summit assembly with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on the Yongsan Presidential Workplace on today and search methods to strengthen cooperation in areas comparable to nationwide protection, commerce, improvement cooperation, and infrastructure building.
It has been eight months for the reason that leaders of the 2 international locations held a summit assembly. President Yoon and Prime Minister Hun Manet held a bilateral assembly on the event of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, in September final yr.
Commerce between Korea and Cambodia is turning into extra energetic, with a free commerce settlement (FTA) coming into impact in December 2022 and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on mutual customs assist being signed in April final yr.
It’s anticipated that the assembly on today may also focus on methods to additional promote cooperation within the financial subject, together with assist measures to allow Korean corporations to enter Cambodia easily.
President Yoon has not but made an abroad journey this yr.
That is in distinction to final yr, when he made 13 journeys and engaged in summit diplomacy to understand the diplomatic imaginative and prescient of a worldwide pivotal nation and host the 2030 Busan World Expo (Expo). A visit to Germany and Denmark was scheduled for February this yr, however the journey was postponed resulting from political stress forward of the final election along with the collective motion incident within the medical neighborhood.
As an alternative, President Yoon is participating in diplomatic warfare by greeting international leaders at dwelling.
President Yoon is the third Prime Minister of Cambodia to fulfill with a international chief in Korea. On the twenty third of final month, he held a summit assembly with the President of Romania, and every week in a while the thirtieth, he met with the President of Angola to seek out methods to strengthen cooperation.
As well as, the Korea-China-Japan summit, which is predicted to be one of many largest diplomatic occasions within the first half of the yr, is being finalized to be held in Seoul on the twenty sixth and twenty seventh of this month.
If the Korea-China-Japan summit, which shall be held in 4 years and 5 months, really takes place, President Yoon can intention to safe momentum for the restoration of Korea-China relations, one other diplomatic axis, following the institution of the trilateral cooperation system between Korea, the US, and Japan final yr.
The day prior to this, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reported that the three international locations had been finalizing a joint assertion to strengthen the meals and useful resource provide chain with the intention of selling free commerce.
The Korea-Africa Summit shall be held on the 4th and fifth of subsequent month at KINTEX in Seoul and Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. As President Yoon is specializing in increasing diplomacy with Africa, it’s anticipated to function a stepping stone for increasing the diplomatic panorama.
Moreover, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited President Yoon to the Ukraine Peace Summit scheduled to be held in Switzerland in mid-June, elevating the potential of his attendance.
The North Atlantic Treaty Group (NATO) summit scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C., in July can be being awaited, and there are even speculations {that a} trilateral summit between Korea, the US, and Japan shall be held as a chance.
(Seoul = Information 1)
