Vietnam decided to postpone the 36th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), scheduled for April 8-9, due to coronavirus. This is stated in a common communiqué of the Foreign Ministry of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The summit was postponed to the end of June in connection with fears arising from the spread of coronavirus, according to a statement by the Vietnam Foreign Ministry.
The Foreign Ministry also said that the head of the Vietnamese government, Nguyen Suan Fook, had already informed about the postponement of the summit and the accompanying conferences of the leaders of the countries participating in the Association.