They also promised to boost the realisation of the Government's commitments in promoting gender equality and women's advancement.
The General Assembly also called for an increase in ASEAN women's involvement in business affairs, information technology and digital telecommunications development, and in ensuring sustainable development aligns with the objectives and principles stated in the ASEAN charters related to women.
ACWO were highly appreciative and wished the governments of the ASEAN+3 countries would form a mechanism to foster regional co-operation to uplift women power and raise the participation and contribution of women in economics, food security, food safety, environmental protection, climate change responses, the prevention of domestic violence, labour immigration and human trafficking.
ACWO members committed to implementing the resolution in the spirit of friendship and co-operation for peace, prosperity and sustainability in the region.
In the closing ceremony, chairwoman of the Viet Nam Women's Union Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, who was also the ACWO President from 2008 to 2010, handed over her regional position to the chairwoman of Indonesia's National Council of Women's Organ-isations for the 2010-12 period.
Hoa said she believed Indonesia's National Council of Women's Organisations, one of ACWO's founders, would successfully complete its tasks in the upcoming tenure. — VNS
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