VN to host 35th ASEAN Social Security Association meeting in Sept
The 35th ASEAN Social Security Association (ASSA) Board Meeting will take place from September 17 – 21 in Nha Trang, the resort city of Khanh Hoa in central Vietnam.
Vietnam to host the 35th ASEAN Social Security Association Board Meeting in September. (Photo: ASSA/VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The 35th ASEAN SocialSecurity Association (ASSA) Board Meeting will take place from September 17 –21 in Nha Trang, the resort city of Khanh Hoa in central Vietnam.
The event will be hosted by the Vietnam Social Security(VSS), which will take over the rotating ASSA chairmanship in 2018. The VSSwill also host celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the ASSAthis year.
It is the fifth time the VSS has chaired the ASSA BoardMeeting. It first undertook the chairmanship during the 2002 – 2003 term and successfullyorganised the ASSA Board Meeting in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2010.
This year’s meeting, themed “The 4th Industrial Revolution and ASEAN Social Security Development”, is expected tobring together 170 delegates, including representatives from the VietnameseGovernment, ASSA President and Secretary General, leaders of national socialsecurity institutions and diplomats from ASEAN member states.
Speakers from the International Social SecurityAssociation (ISSA), the World Bank, the International Labour Organisation(ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South Korea National PensionService (NPS), and the University of Waikato in New Zealand are also scheduledto participate in the event.
The ASSA was found in 1998 following the signing of aMemorandum of Agreement in Bangkok, Thailand on February 13 that year,involving heads of social security institutions from five countries - thePhilippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Representatives fromLaos and Vietnam also attended the signing ceremony as observers.
Later the year, the VSS became a member of ASSA.
The association was formed to promote the development of social security in theregion in consonance with the aspirations, laws and regulations of the membercountries; promote regional cooperation in all areas of social security; and exchangeexperience and information on social security.
It works in cooperation with other social security institutions in the regionand East Asia, and with similar or related organisations of social security inany part of the world; and cooperates in the protection, promotion anddevelopment of social security schemes through training, seminars,consultations and dialogues, among others.
Its members now comprise 19 social security institutionsfrom ten ASEAN nations.-VNA
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Vietnam to host the 35th ASEAN Social Security Association Board Meeting in September. (Photo: ASSA/VNA)
