New Delhi, October 01: Financial and economic governance, sustainable development and people-to-people contact would be the core themes in the two-day Asia-Europe summit meeting in Brussels to be attended by Vice President Md Hamid Ansari next week.
The Vice President would be accompanied by his wife Salma Ansari and senior officials from his office and the Ministry of External Affairs.
Ansari will address the first plenary session on October 4 speaking on financial and economic governance and the next day there would be three closed-door sessions where the remaining themes of sustainable development, global and regional issues and people to people visibility and the future of ASEM would be discussed.
King Albert II of Belgium would hold a lunch for all leaders on October 5.
Apart from these engagements, the Vice President will also have bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit.
–Agencies