A Seminar on ASEAN awareness was held at the Oriental University of Napoli on 27 May 2013. The Seminar was jointly organized by the
The seminar is an initiative by the ACR to further promote and create awareness on ASEAN to Italians. The target group this time was aspiring young Italian students currently undergoing oriental studies at the University. The seminar was attended by 100 guests comprising mostly of university students and lecturers.
The seminar started with introductory remarks by Professor Giuseppe Cataldi and was subsequently followed by presentations from 5 speakers. The speakers were Ambassador Tint Swai of Myanmar, Ambassador Surapit Kirtiputra of Thailand, Ambassador Halimah Abdullah of Malaysia, Ambassador August Parengkuan of Indonesia and Mrs. Grace T. Cruz Fabella, Minister of the Phillipines Embassy.
Topics such as the inception of ASEAN, ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN External Relations, ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN Socio-Cultural community were presented at the seminar.
Towards the end of the seminar, a question and answer session saw the seminar turned into an engaging forum as the ASEAN Ambassadors were posed questions and requested to give remarks by the students as well as the lecturers on various topics regarding the current ASEAN setup and the future of ASEAN.
