“ASEAN recognizes the importance of creating synergy between the mutually-reinforcing ASEAN 2025 Blueprints and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the framework of ASEAN-UN cooperation,” said ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General for Socio-Cultural Community Vongthep Arthakaivalvatee. He spoke this at an interface meeting held on June 23 at the UN office in Bangkok among Thailand’s National ASEAN Secretariat, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the ASEAN Secretariat. ASEAN 2025 is the successor blueprint to the ASEAN Community Roadmap. Read more:http://bit.ly/28Y8XZi
Rouhani wins Iran's Presidential election Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need of a second round run-off.Interior minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on state television that Rouhani secured just over 50 percent of the ballot based on a 72 percent turnout of 50 million eligible voters. Mr Hassan Rouhani ... got the absolute majority of votes and was elected as president," Najjar said. Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-line conservative, lagged behind with about 16 percent of the votes. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, he too a hard-line conservative, earned 11 percent. The voter turnout was 72.7 percent. President-elect Hassan Rohani, sixty four years old, is known as a moderate conservative. He has been stressing the need to improve ties with Western nations, and is back...
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