Vietnam attends 2015 ASEAN People Forum

Kuala Lumpur, April 25 (VNA) – Vietnam attended the 2015 ASEAN People’s Forum (APF) that opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 22-24, attracting over 1,400 delegates from the region. Besides plenary sessions and thematic discussions, the delegates also held dialogues with parliamentarians from ASEAN countries and representatives of the Malaysian and Filipino governments. The Vietnamese delegation include activists from different mass organisations active in peace, security, environment, climate change, economics, education, agriculture, immigration, women and child rights, and labour. Vietnamese delegates chaired and co-chaired several workshops and offered ideas to build the people-centred ASEAN Community by late 2015. Participants are due to meet government leaders of ASEAN member states on April 27.