Biden’s senior exec says Asean meet shows US isn’t overly focused on Ukraine

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The recently concluded US-Asean Special Summit is also an assurance that US President Joe Biden’s administration is not overly focused on the Ukraine issue, a senior official of the US government told Southeast Asian reporters. | GabrielLaluINQ

“The administration needs to continue doing what it laid out from the very beginning of its time in office in terms of really focusing on the Indo-Pacific and expanding and strengthening our position and our relations in the Indo-Pacific,” he added.

“I think the president very much sees Asean as a critical aspect of this […] I think with his further engagements with leaders from Southeast Asia, with other leaders from the region all reinforced this view that this is a critical place for the US in terms of how we strengthen our relationship with them — long-standing partners, allies, countries who all are extremely important to the United States,” he said.

“Our joint vision statement also reaffirms our mutual respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of Ukraine, as well as our deep concern over the crisis in Burma,” Kritenbrink told reporters.“The leaders discussed their shared commitment to the rules-based international order that we have all depended on to grow our economies and our societies.

 

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