ASEAN Bulletin
March 2007
- ASEAN and ILO Sign Agreement To Boost
Cooperation , Geneva, 20 March 2007
ASEAN and ILO Sign Agreement To Boost
Cooperation
Geneva, 20 March 2007
ILO
Director-General Juan Somavia and ASEAN Secretary-General Ong
Keng Yong
The Secretary-General of ASEAN Ong Keng Yong
and the Director-General of the International Labour
Organisation (ILO) Juan Somavia signed a Cooperation Agreement
on the behalf of the Secretariats of ASEAN and the International
Labour Organisation* on 20 March 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Agreement will serve as a platform to
strengthen the collaboration and partnership between the two
organisations through the exchange of information, research studies
as well as participation at working-level meetings.
Under the Agreement, ASEAN and the ILO will
deepen their collaboration in the implementation of programmes and
projects in areas of common interest. Such areas include
occupational health and safety, HIV/AIDS and the workplace, the
employment implications of trade liberalisation, youth employment,
vocational training, social security and labour migration.
The Secretariat of the ILO is the International
Labour Office.
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Click
here for the Press Release on the Signing
Ceremony of the Agreement, issued by the ILO, Geneva, Switzerland,
20 March 2007
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Click here for the Cooperation Agreement between
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat and
the International Labour Office
Posted on 20 March 2007
