The 5th Meeting of the JEB Held at the ACC Secretariat

On 26 November 2015, the 5th Meeting of the Joint Executive Board (JEB) was held at the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) Secretariat in Beijing. 

The Meeting was co-chaired by Mr. John K. Samuel, Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Malaysia to China, and Mr. Huang Xilian, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Representatives from ASEAN Embassies in Beijing, China Council and ACC officials attended the Meeting.

The JEB members commended H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, ACC Secretary-General, and her team members from ASEAN and China for their hard work and outstanding achievements in 2015 in promoting ASEAN-China cooperation in the areas of trade, investment, education, culture, tourism, media and public relations. They opined that the leaders of ASEAN and China reached important consensus at the 18th ASEAN-China Summit on 21 November 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, particularly on holding a series of commemorative activities in celebration of the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-China dialogue relations, boosting wide-ranging cooperation in connectivity, production capacity, people-to-people exchanges, etc. The JEB members hoped that ACC would continue to make greater contributions to the future development of ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership in the years to come.

Secretary-General Yang expressed her heartfelt appreciation to the JEB members for their ever strong support to the ACC Secretariat. She stated that ACC would continue to work closely with the JEB in implementing the important consensus reached by the leaders of ASEAN and China, as well as make relentless efforts to push forward ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership. 

The Meeting considered and had interactive exchanges of views on the ACC Draft Annual Report of 2015, ACC Draft Annual Plan of Operation and Work Programme of 2016 and the Draft Proposed Budget of Operational Expenditure of 2016, as well as the Comprehensive Report of ACC for ACC Mid-term Review (2012-2014). The Meeting also deliberated on the Revision of the MoU on Establishing the ASEAN-China Centre between the Governments of the ASEAN Member States and China. The above-mentioned documents with some amendments and suggestions would be reported to the 5th Joint Council (JC) Meeting of ACC in December 2015 for further consideration.