Over 400 people from academia, industry, diplomatic community attend sixth round table of ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks
Aug 21, 2020
New Delhi [India], Aug 21 : More than 400 people from academia, industry, government, and diplomatic community attended the sixth round table of ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks jointly organised by External Affairs Ministry and Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The theme of the round table was 'ASEAN-India: Strengthening Partnership in the Post COVID Era'.
The two-day round table had commenced on Thursday through video conference. It was jointly inaugurated by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Thailand Don Pramudwinai.
An MEA release said that the round table had five thematic sessions spread over two days - Changing Landscape of Global Order and ASEAN-India relations in the post-COVID-19 Era, Emerging Value Chains: Opportunities for ASEAN and India in the post-COVID-19 Era, New Normal and Significance of 4IR on ASEAN-India Partnership and Future Collaborations, ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI): Complementarities and Cooperation, and Way Forward.
Each session saw presentation of research papers by four-five panelists from prominent think-tanks, universities, institutes both from India and ASEAN and was followed by question and answer session.
ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi also addressed the inaugural session.
The ASEAN-India Round Table comprising think tanks, policymakers, scholars, media, and business representatives was established at the 7th ASEAN-India Summit in Thailand in 2009 to provide policy inputs to governments on the future direction of cooperation.
The forum serves as a high-quality research platform and provides long-term perspectives to further strengthen the ASEAN-India Strategic Partnership, the release said.
The ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at the Research and Information System for Development Countries (RIS) and ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok were the organizing partners of the round table.
