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Conversation with Khun Kavi Chongkittavorn on “ASEAN’s Cambodia Chair: Progress and Challenges”

A series of public lecture by renowned experts in foreign affairs field to discuss about pressing issues in international politics that matter for Cambodia's development.

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This year, Cambodia takes on the rotating chairmanship of ASEAN at a potentially path-altering moment in the institution’s history – seeking to address the extremely diverse and significant set of challenges confronting contemporary Southeast Asia.

During a weeklong 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM), ASEAN centrality is taken to center stage again in addressing many unprecedented regional issues and the regional bloc's unity is being observed closely by ASEAN watchers.

Adhering to this year’s theme, “ASEAN A.C.T.: Addressing Challenges Together,” Cambodia, as host of the 55th AMM, managed to inject more vigor into the bloc's centrality in steering ASEAN's collective response to a range of hard-pressed issues. ASEAN issued a joint communiqué containing 119 paragraphs covering confronting regional issues and expressing ASEAN's resolves to tackle them.

As the current ASEAN chair, Cambodia works tirelessly to preserve and strengthen ASEAN Centrality, both at home and abroad.

The chair has encouraged all conflicting parties in the Myanmar crisis to implement the Five-point Consensus. There has been some progress, especially on the action plans related to humanitarian assistance and dialogues among stakeholders. ASEAN has prided itself in solving its own so-called family program, focusing on the process.

During the upcoming 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and Related Summits ASEAN, Cambodia is expected to demonstrate her potential to effectively rally ASEAN's asset and resilience to navigate the unsettling geopolitical created by: the Myanmar crisis to implement the Five-point Consensus, particularly how to move forward the action plans related to humanitarian assistance and dialogues among stake holders; strategic issue of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea where ASEAN and China need to focus on resolving challenges for biding and credible code; US-China rivalry widely debated globally which is known to be the most visible implication for ASEAN to reckon in order to avoid the bifurcated pressure; and other related non-security challenges.

As Cambodia is wrapping its chair by the end of the year, it is an opportune time to give critical assessments of the ASEAN chair’s role amid all these challenges while taking on this year’s theme, “ASEAN A.C.T.: Addressing Challenges Together" to forge the bloc's centrality in moving ASEAN’s vision forward while strengthening the existing ASEAN mechanisms. 

 

KAS and CICP sit down with Mr. Kavi Chongkittavorn to provide an overall assessment of the ASEAN Chairmanship before the upcoming ASEAN Summit this November. We would like to invite you to join us on zoom webinar to discuss about this important matter together. 

 

 About our distinguished speakers: 

Kavi Chongkittavorn

Khun Kavi Chongkittavorn is a senior fellow at the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) Thailand. He has been a journalist for more than three decades covering Thai and regional politics. He began his career as a reporter in 1983 and became the paper's foreign news editor in 1986. Then, he was asked to explore Indochina - first as Bureau Chief in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (1988-1990) and later on in Hanoi, Vietnam (1990-1992). After a year in Oxford University as Reuter Fellow in 1994, he went to Jakarta and served as Special Assistant to the Secretary-General of ASEAN in Jakarta in 1995 before returning to journalism. He was named the Human Rights Journalist of 1998 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Amnesty International. From 1999-2000, he was the President of the Thai Journalists Association. From 2000-2001, he went to Harvard University as Nieman Fellow. He served as a member of the jury and from 2005-2008 as its chair of Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize organized by UNESCO.’

 

How to join this session?

This is a hybrid event, in-person participation is invite-only, and register for Zoom Webinar here. 

For more information, please contact Mr. Lim Chhay, Program Manager for Foreign Affairs, KAS Cambodia. 

Program

Registration

08:30 - 09:00  AM 

Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:00 - 09:15  AM 

Welcome Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Pou Sothirak,

Executive Director of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP)

 

09:15 – 09:30 AM

Opening Remarks by Dr. Daniel Schmuecking,

Country Representative of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Cambodia

Conversation on ASEAN’s Cambodia Chair: Progress and Challenges

9:30 – 10:15 AM        

Conversation with Mr. Kavi Chongkittavorn,

Senior fellow at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Security and International Studies and Veteran Journalist

Question and Answer

10:15 – 10:50 AM     

Question and Answer

Closing Remarks

10:500 – 11:00 AM   

Closing remarks by H.E. Ambassador Pou Sothirak,

Executive Director of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP)

Networking Session and Refreshment

11:00 – 11:30          

Networking and Refreshment

End of Public Lecture!

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Venue

Raffles Hotel Le Royal
Phnom Penh
Cambodia

Speakers

  • Khun Kavi Chongkittavorn
    • Senior fellow at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Security and International Studies and Veteran Journalist
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      Chhay Lim

      Chhay Lim (2021)

      Program Manager

      chhay.lim@kas.de +855 87 880 997

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