By DayakDaily Team
KUCHING, July 11: United States President Donald Trump might attend the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur this October.
According to a news report from New Straits Times (NST) on Thursday (July 10), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that discussions were ongoing to finalise a date for the ASEAN–US Special Summit.
“It’s possible, yes. We are working on a date for that,” said Rubio during a media engagement on the sidelines of the 58th Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and related events.
Rubio was in Kuala Lumpur to attend the 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference, which took place in the wake of Trump’s recent announcement on new tariff impositions.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who met with Rubio earlier, described the meeting as ‘beneficial’, citing the United States’ openness to reviewing trade tariffs and its continued engagement with both Malaysia and ASEAN.
In May, Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan stated that Malaysia, as the ASEAN Chair, was still awaiting Washington’s confirmation of the date for the ASEAN-US Special Summit.
“Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has written to the US requesting that an ASEAN–US Special Summit be held this year.
“We are waiting for a response from the US, and hopefully we will receive good news,” he said. — DayakDaily
