US celebrates 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties with ASEAN
(VOVWORLD) -Participants in the US Department of State’s Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) exchange visitor program have celebrated the 40th anniversary of US-ASEAN relations and the 50th anniversary of ASEAN.
Walter Douglas, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Alyson Grunder, Senior Bureau Official of the Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs pledged continued US support for ASEAN to promote bilateral strategic partnership. YSEALI, the State Department’s flagship youth exchange program focused on Southeast Asia, is key to the US’s socio-cultural partnership with ASEAN through providing opportunities for Southeast Asia’s young people’s study visits to the US.