Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 14 February 2026, held a dinner meeting with President of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Professor Tetsuya Watanabe, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany. They discussed about ASEAN’s priorities for 2026 and ERIA’s research and capacity-building activities, and exchanged views on regional and global developments.