{"id":37348,"date":"2026-03-15T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/03\/15\/asean-ministers-urge-halt-to-middle-east-war-as-crisis-rattles-energy-and-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:47:00","slug":"asean-ministers-urge-halt-to-middle-east-war-as-crisis-rattles-energy-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/03\/15\/asean-ministers-urge-halt-to-middle-east-war-as-crisis-rattles-energy-and-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN ministers urge halt to Middle East war as crisis rattles energy and trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASEAN foreign and economic ministers on Friday called for an immediate halt to the war in the Middle East, and said the effects of surging oil prices and disrupted trade are already hitting Southeast Asia&#8217;s economies.<br \/>Several members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have begun rolling out measures to counter the economic impact, with governments moving quickly to conserve energy, stabilise domestic markets and protect vulnerable sectors such as tourism.<br \/>Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma Theresa Lazaro told a press conference after a special meeting on the crisis &#8220;We expressed serious concern over the situation in the Middle East and its impacts in the region, and emphasised the importance of the immediate cessation of hostilities,&#8221; , adding that ASEAN called on all parties to exercise the utmost self-restraint.<br \/>The Philippines, which is chairing ASEAN this year, convened the special meeting as concerns over the Iran conflict deepened.<br \/>The ministers called for global energy supply chains to be kept open and to activate regional mechanisms to mitigate the economic fallout.<br \/>Singapore&#8217;s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, who also took part in the virtual meeting, expressed support for Manila&#8217;s efforts to forge a regional response and conveyed concern over the situation in the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASEAN foreign and economic ministers on Friday called for an immediate halt to the war in the Middle East, and said the effects of surging oil prices and disrupted trade are already hitting Southeast Asia&#8217;s economies.Several members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have begun rolling out measures to counter the economic impact, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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