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The Vice President of India addressed the plenary session of the ASEM Summit and emphasized the importance of reforming the UNSC and other International Organizations restoring multilateralism. 

Theme of the summit: "Strengthening Multilateralism for Shared Growth”

ASEM Summit

Aim

The ASEM summit is an Asian-European political dialogue that aims to increase the level of cooperation between the partners.

Objective

It is a biennial event with its firm objective of enhancing the collaboration between Europe and Asia in the areas of economics, politics, finance, education and culture.

Details

• The 13th Summit is being hosted by Cambodia as ASEM Chair. 
• It was established in the year 1996 in Bangkok, Thailand having 15 member states of the EU and European Commission and 7 member states of the ASEAN along with China, Japan and South Korea.
• The 13th ASEM dialogue involved 21 countries from Asia and the ASEAN secretariat along with the EU and its 27 member states and Norway, Switzerland and the UK. It was an overall grouping of 51 member countries.
• India joined the ASEM group in 2006 and hosted the 11th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in 2013 at Delhi. Since then India has been actively involved in raising concerns in the multilateral platform and also provided proper solutions.
• The theme for the year 2021 is “Strengthening multilateralism for shared growth” and was hosted by Cambodia as the current chair of the group.