Vietnam postpones hosting Asian security forum


A health worker gets the temperature of residents at the area of a newly found coronavirus infected patient in Da Nang city, Vietnam, on July 26, 2020. Vietnam has postponed its hosting of Asia’s largest security forum, which includes North Korea, and an annual meeting of South-East Asian foreign ministers by a month to September due to the coronavirus pandemic. - Reuters

MANILA/HANOI, July 27 (AP): Vietnam has postponed its hosting of Asia’s largest security forum, which includes North Korea, and an annual meeting of South-East Asian foreign ministers by a month to September due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Two South-East Asian diplomats said Monday that Vietnam, which leads the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) this year, hopes to hold face to face meetings in mid-September instead of doing them by online video due to travel restrictions if the annual gatherings were to be held as originally scheduled later this week.

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