(VOV) - The Vietnamese Embassy in the US, in coordination with the Southeast Asia Roundtable Forum, held a Vietnam Forum on the US-ASEAN relationship in Washington DC on Thursday. Nirav Patel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategy and Multilateral Affairs, introduced the foreign policies of President Barack Obama’s administration related to  the Asia-Pacific region and ASEAN. Nirav, who was a key speaker at the second forum, said that the US has made a great effort to promote comprehensive cooperation in politics, security, economics, trade and investment with countries in the region. The US supports ASEAN’s central  role in the region and will closely cooperate with ASEAN for the sake of security, peace, development, and prosperity. Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong praised the US commitments to regional peace, stability, and development and urged the US to devise concrete programmes to promote US-ASEAN relations.