Brussels [Belgium], November 22 (ANI/WAM): Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, chaired the fourth EU-Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels, on 20 and 21 November 2025.
During the Forum, individuals targeted on how you can improve cooperation and deepen solidarity in three parallel roundtables:
Security priorities within the face of present geopolitical developments. Shared prosperity, financial safety, and digital connectivity. Common endeavours for a clear and sustainable future.
The Forum introduced collectively round 70 delegations from the EU establishments and EU member states, in addition to from nations and regional organisations from the Indo-Pacific area, spanning from the East coast of Africa to the Pacific Islands nations.
The EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum has turn into a singular platform for the EU and its member states to interact collectively with Indo-Pacific companions. It displays a shared curiosity in fostering concrete cooperation on a region-to-region foundation, enhancing mutual safety, prosperity and resilience, and laying the foundations for an ever extra formidable partnership.
Amid geopolitical shifts and financial uncertainty, Europe and the Indo-Pacific discover their futures more and more intertwined. Recent challenges, from rising stress on the multilateral system to the weaponisation of commerce and know-how and the accelerating local weather disaster, are bringing the 2 areas nearer collectively. In this context, they proceed to depend on the rules-based worldwide order, and the multilateral establishments which guarantee compliance in addition to accountability with agreed guidelines and norms.
The Forum provided a superb alternative for the EU to spotlight the concrete progress made in strengthening partnerships with Indo-Pacific nations and organisations because the earlier Ministerial assembly in February 2024.
This consists of the Security and Defence Partnerships agreed with Japan and the Republic of Korea; the conclusion of negotiations on the EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement; the signature of the EU Clean Trade and Investment Partnership with South Africa; the EU monetary and technical assist to the ASEAN Power Grid growth; the first-ever EU-Pacific Business Forum that unlocked practically EUR300 million in new investments and finances assist; in addition to quite a few different cooperation agreements and initiatives led by EU member states. (ANI/WAM)