JAKARTA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono held a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from various countries on the sidelines of the '59th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting and Post-Ministerial Conferences' (AMM/PMC) and related meetings throughout this week in Manila, Philippines.
Spokesperson for the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yvonne Mewengkang, said that Foreign Minister Sugiono held a series of concrete bilateral meetings during his participation in the AMM/PMC series in Manila on July 21-24.
The foreign ministers of friendly countries who met with Foreign Minister Sugiono include South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, and the Head of Foreign Policy of the European Union Kaja Kallas.
In addition to proper bilateral meetings, there are several that are done poolside, such as meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen, Panama Foreign Minister Javier Eduardo Martínez-Acha Vásquez to Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.
"Several bilateral meetings this time are not just a meeting. This time it is really concrete in the sense that there are several Foreign Minister meetings that have been pending. This is important because it is difficult to find a schedule from these Foreign Ministers," explained Yvonne after the high-level meeting of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC) on Friday (24/7) afternoon.
"And that means it's not just about technicality, (9:23) but how we concretize, so all of that besides energy, food security, defense and the most concrete thing I can say, some pending issues that may still be at the technical level. brought to the level of the Minister, it was directly discussed," said Yvonne.
"And, oh there's no problem, let's fix this, this is the solution, each one is discussed, it's very concrete. I can't mention the country in particular, just a few majority from there, so it's not just a bilateral meeting because it's here again, so it's in between like that," he said.
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