FOREIGN Affairs Minister and ASEAN Chairman George Yeo will host the 41st Asean Ministerial Meeting (AMM), the Post Ministerial Conferences (PMC) and the 15th Asean Regional Forum (ARF) in Singapore.

These events will kick off on Thursday, said the Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement.

During the AMM, the Asean foreign ministers will review the on-going efforts to create an Asean Community by 2015 and seek the early ratification of the Asean Charter.

The foreign ministers will meet with the High Level Legal Experts' Group to address legal issues related to the Asean Charter like dispute settlement mechanisms.

They will also meet with the High Level Panel on the Establishment of the Asean Human Rights Body, that will draft the body's Terms of Reference.

The ministers will exchange views on regional developments, including Asean and the international community's humanitarian assistance efforts for the victims of the Cyclone Nargis disaster.

Separately, they will meet with representatives from Asean Dialogue Partners, which include Australia, Canada, the United States and China.

The Free Trade Agreements with China, India, Japan, Korea, the EU, Australia and New Zealand will be discussed, as the ministers explore ways to further intensify cooperation.

The Foreign Ministers of the Asean+3 process will meet to chart the next steps of their cooperation.

The Foreign Ministers of the East Asia Summit (EAS)countries will hold informal consultations to discuss regional and international issues as well as EAS matters.

The ARF ministers will exchange views on regional developments and discuss ways to move the ARF into practical areas of cooperation and preventive diplomacy.

In addition, they will issue the Singapore Declaration on the 15th ARF to reiterate their commitment to the ARF process.

Also released will be an ARF Statement on Promoting Collaboration on the Prevention of Diversion of Precursors into Illicit Drug Manufacture.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will accede to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia.

Singapore will hand over the Chairmanship of Asean to Thailand on July 24.