The Vietnamese National Organizing Committee (NOC) organized a meeting on 24 June 2020 in Hanoi to prepare for ASEAN People’s Forum (APF) 2020.

More than 60 participants who are members of the NOC and representatives of Vietnamese people organizations attended the meeting.

The meeting discussed the topic, thematic clusters and tentative agenda of APF 2020, as well as the Terms of Reference (TOR) of the Regional Organizing Committee.

In the context of COVID-19, participants also discussed two options for APF 2020, which is scheduled for October 2020. Accordingly, if the pandemic is controlled, APF 2020 will be organised in the traditional way. Otherwise, there will be the first online APF since it was first organised in Malaysia in 2005.

The meeting also decided to convene an online regional consultative meeting in preparation for APF 2020 in late July 2020.

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