ASEAN civic groups to gather in Bangkok to prepare inputs to upcoming ASEAN summit

BANGKOK. February 19. KAZINFORM Almost 1,000 people from civic groups of the country members of the Association Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) would gather in Bangkok from Friday to Sunday in order to prepare their inputs to the upcoming ASEAN summit, local media reported Thursday.

The ASEAN summit is planned to be held in the central resort town in Hua Hin of Thailand's central province of Prachuab Khirikhan from Feb. 27 to March 1. As many as 34 workshops with focuses on peace, human security, human right, social, culture, disaster and economic crisis will be organized at Chulalongkorn University during these coming-three-day event, the website by The Nation newspaper reported. Also, they would meet with ASEAN Secretary General Surit Pitsuwan and Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya on Sunday to wrap up their concerned issues, the website said. Later the civic groups' representatives would bring the outcomes from the discussions which they called "ASEAN People Forum" to the ASEAN leaders during the summit at the end of this month, Kazinform cites Xinhuanet.