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Chair - Diplomatic Discourse

The document summarizes the opening proceedings of a virtual ASEAN meeting focused on promoting social protection systems. As chair, the speaker welcomed delegates and highlighted enhancing social protection as a priority given COVID-19's impacts. Each delegate then provided opening remarks. The chair outlined the agenda, including reviewing and amending a draft chairman's statement through discussion and voting. The meeting would include breaks and amendments continuing the next day if needed.

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Chair - Diplomatic Discourse

The document summarizes the opening proceedings of a virtual ASEAN meeting focused on promoting social protection systems. As chair, the speaker welcomed delegates and highlighted enhancing social protection as a priority given COVID-19's impacts. Each delegate then provided opening remarks. The chair outlined the agenda, including reviewing and amending a draft chairman's statement through discussion and voting. The meeting would include breaks and amendments continuing the next day if needed.

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Chairman Diplomatic Discourse and Procedure:

I. Opening Statement Session

Hanoi, 23 October 2020


Greeting the Excellencies, ASEAN Secretariat
Distinguished Delegates,

On behalf of the Government of Vietnam, We are very delighted to welcome all of the delegates
to Hanoi, the prosperity capital of Vietnam. Vietnam is deeply honored to host as the ASEAN
Chairman for the 36th ASEAN Summit in 2020. In the name of the Secretary of State of Ministry
of Labour, War Invalid and Social Affairs, I am most happy to chair this Senior Officials Meeting.

We hope that this meeting will look into the way of enhancing and promoting the social
protection system at the national and regional levels to the issued that immediately affected, our
people, the security, health, stability of our region; and especially to this hard time of the
COVID-19 global pandemic.

This year, our theme will focus on “ASEAN in the Post-Pandemic World”. And in today’s
meeting topic of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, we will focus on the “Promoting Social
Protection System in ASEAN”.

At the same time, steps are being taken – and more are being worked out – to hasten and
deepen ASEAN’s integration and strengthen ASEAN cooperation in many areas – to work with
the regional spirit among ASEAN member states to increase the quality, revision, and sharing
the idea to enhance the mechanism, strategy, and action plan to bring the betterment of the
social protection system for our ASEAN people.

Let’s make the global pandemic as an opportunity where we could make our regional spirit
stronger and better than ever for our community to counter the crisis and be developing.

Hands together, we can achieve bigger changes for our people.

Thank You
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Next, In the capacity of Chair, I would like to make the round call for each delegate to represent
their opening statement.
Start from the Delegate of Brunei, you may now have the floor. Thank you
Next, 3. Cambodia,
4. Indonesia,
5. Laos
6. Malaysia
7. Myanmar
8. Philippine
9. Singapore
10. Thailand

Thank you all distinguished delegates for the very wonderful opening remarks. In the capacity of
Chair, I would like to proceed to the Chairman Statement Amendment Session.

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Before we proceed, I would like to ask the ASEAN Secretariat to share the Draft of the
Chairman Statement screen to the meeting for all the delegates to make the convenient in
making the amendment.

In the capacity of Chair, I would like to request all the delegates to raise up your hand with the
open video when you wish to amend the clause in the Draft of Chairman Statement.

II. Chairman Statement Amendment Session


I am now ordered to proceed to the session of the Chairman Statement Amendment. Staring
from clause number 1,...

[Read]

If there any other delegate would like to amend to the clause number … Please raise up your
hand.

+ Amendment Mode:
The Chair recognized the delegate of … You may now have the floor.
Thank you delegate of ... . If there any other delegate would like to amend or discussion
on the proposed by the delegates on clause number … Please raise up your hand.

+ Voting Mode
Seeing no more amendment on clause number … In the capacity of Chair, I would like to
call for the voting on the amendment clause…

***For those who in favor of the amendment made by … please raise up your hand
***For those who in objection of the amendment made by … please raise up your hand
Seeing no objection, the clause number … have reached on the consensus, and clause
number … is now passed. Next, I would like to call for the amendment on the next
clause …

Seeing no consensus on this clause, I would like to call for more discussion … on the
amendment made by the delegate of … on the word/phrase ...

+ Authority Mode
By seeing no consensus, I would like to call for the to retain the original.

III. Break Session


12pm - 1:30pm - 1 Hour 30 Mins
2:50pm - 3:10pm - 20 Mins

In the capacity of Chair, I would call for the unmoderated caucus for …

***For those who in favor of this unmoderated caucus … please raise up your hand
***For those who in objection of this unmoderated caucus … please raise up your hand

IV. Resume Session


In the capacity of Chair, I would like to call for the resuming of the meeting. Now we
proceed to the amendment on the clause number ...

V. Closing Statement Session


Due to the time constraint, in the capacity of Chair, I would order to end the meeting
within this time and escalate the remaining amendment on the Draft Chairman
Statement to the Sectoral Ministerial Meeting tomorrow.

Thank you to all the delegates for your valuable time.

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