SINGAPORE – Media
OutReach – 12 November 2018 – The
33rd ASEAN Summit (and related Summits) are being held in Singapore
from Tuesday, 13 November to Thursday, 15 November and Twitter is the best
place to stay informed in real-time on what’s happening at the region’s biggest
diplomatic meetings this week. For the
first time ever, the ASEAN Summit will be livestreamed on Twitter via the
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ official Twitter account @MFAsg (https://twitter.com/MFAsg).
World leaders
will join the heads of Southeast Asian states in conversations on geopolitical
developments, continuing progress on regional economic development and trade,
and stronger regional socio-cultural identities. Business leaders, politicians,
reporters and political commentators throughout the region, as well as anyone
who wants to better understand how the 10-member bloc will move forward, can
join in the real-time ASEAN conversations on Twitter with the hashtags #ASEAN
and #ASEAN2018.
These hashtags will also activate a special Twitter emoji depicting the
official ASEAN 2018 logo:
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/MFAsg/status/1060471997011058688
The
conversation on Twitter promises to be unforgettable with a high-powered list
of political leaders coming to Singapore for #ASEAN2018. US Vice President Mike
Pence (@VP),
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (@justintrudeau), India Prime
Minister Narendra Modi (@narendramodi), Japan Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe (@abeshinzo), South Korea
President Moon Jae-in (@moonriver365), Australia
Prime Minister Scott Morrison (@scottmorrisonMP), and New
Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (@jacindaardern) are among
those to join Singapore Prime Minister and ASEAN Chairman Lee Hsien Loong (@leehsienloong),
Malaysia Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (@chedetofficial), Indonesia
President Joko Widodo (@jokowi) and other leaders from the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (@ASEAN). Follow them now on Twitter
to hear directly from these world leaders.
First-ever livestreams of ASEAN
Summit on Twitter
To
showcase the importance of the ASEAN region to a global audience, the Singapore
government (as the summit host) will livestream and live-Tweet key summit
activities listed below. Follow @MFAsg on Twitter now to be among
the first to see what’s happening at the #ASEAN Summit.
@MFAsg will livestream the following
#ASEAN2018 events on Twitter:
@MFAsg will also be live-Tweeting the
Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony:
The
anticipation is building up on Twitter, so why wait? Be part of the influential
Twitter conversation today using the #ASEAN or #ASEAN2018
hashtags. Below are several Tweets related to the ASEAN Summit as the world
leaders make their way to Singapore, get ready for a week of meetings, and
engage in digital diplomacy that will share the future of ASEAN in the years
ahead:
Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/ASEAN/status/1061430864536616960
Here are more Tweets from world
leaders, reporters, and political commentators:
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