South Korea to attend ASEAN+3 finance ministers' meeting in Laos


SEOUL (Bernama-Yonhap): South Korea, China, Japan and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will hold a meeting of vice finance ministers and senior central bank officials in Laos this week for talks on their multilateral currency swap deal and ways to boost financial cooperation.

The ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Bank Deputies' Meeting will take place in Luang Prabang on Wednesday and Thursday, where senior officials will check key agenda items for the upcoming meeting set to take place in Georgia on May 3, Yonhap news agency quoted the Ministry of Economy and Finance on Monday.

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