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Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 15 February 2026, participated in the Munich Security Conference (MSC) Breakfast Session, themed “Bridges or Battlegrounds? Science Diplomacy between Hard Power and Big Tech.”…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 14 February 2026, held a dinner meeting with President of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Professor Tetsuya Watanabe, on…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, today met with the Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Riccardo Paternò di Montecupo, at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference,…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 14 February 2026, held a bilateral meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, H.E. Andrii Sybiha, on the margins of the Munich…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 14 February 2026, met with H.E. Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Managing Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on the sidelines of the Munich…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 13 February 2026, joined a high-level panel in a roundtable discussion at the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany. With the theme…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 13 February 2026, gave a video interview for DW-TV, on the sidelines of the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. During the interview,…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 13 February 2026, participated in the Spotlight on Maritime Security, at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. SG Dr. Kao highlighted that for regions like…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 13 February 2026, held a bilateral meeting with the Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, H.E. Florian Hahn, on the…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 13 February 2026, met with H.E. Stefan Rouenhoff, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany, on the…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 13 February 2026, attended the Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2026 Roundtable on “Power Couples: Trade and Green Energy Cooperation Between Europe and the Global…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 10 February 2026, met with the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Yvette Cooper MP, in London. Both sides…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, delivered pre-recorded remarks at the Inaugural Forum of the Southeast Asian Futures Initiative Centre (SEAFIC) under the theme “ASEAN’s Golden Decade: Turning Geopolitical Overload into…

Summary of the Working Visit of the Secretary-General of ASEAN to the United Kingdom 6-11 February 2026

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 10 February 2026, delivered the WSD Handa Distinguished Annual Lecture 2026 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) China Institute in London,…

Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 10 February 2026, met with Naz Shah MP, the UK’s Trade Envoy to ASEAN, in London. They reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening ASEAN-UK economic…