Jakarta - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with ASEAN Secretary General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan and the ASEAN Committee of Permanent Representatives at the ASEAN Secretariat here Tuesday. "Along with our continued economic, strategic, and people-to-people engagement with ASEAN, the United States remains committed to supporting ASEAN's evolution as the foremost regional institution promoting a vision of a peaceful, secure, prosperous, and democratic Southeast Asia," the US embassy here Tuesday said in a press statement on the visit of Hillary Clinton to the ASEAN Secretariat. Clinton and Pitsuwan discussed regional and global issues, including on South China Sea in the meeting. She is on a two-day visit to Indonesia starting Monday. This is her first visit to the ASEAN Secretariat, but her second visit to Jakarta after her first visit in 2009. On Monday evening, she held a bilateral meeting with Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa, and on Tuesday morning she paid a courtesy call on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The United States has demonstrated its institutional support for ASEAN in a number of ways, according to the US embassy's press statement. In June 2010, the United States became the first non-ASEAN country to establish a dedicated Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta. Under the leadership of Ambassador David L. Carden, the United States' first resident Ambassador to ASEAN, the Mission provides a venue for regular engagement and cooperation with ASEAN.


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