Hanoi, June 4 -- The visits will be made at the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung.

The forum, initiated by the Vietnamese Prime Minister at the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Indonesia in September 2023, has been successfully organised in 2024 and 2025, gradually establishing itself as an open dialogue platform that effectively complements ASEAN's formal processes.

This year's forum is built around the theme "Shaping a Shared Future Together: Peace, Prosperity and People-Centred Development".

On scale and agenda, AFF 2026 will be materially larger in both length and substance than previous editions, with more than 20 activities designed to be diverse, open, and inclusive.

Pre-forum events on June 8 include a dialogue among So...