On 31 October 2017, the Royal Thai Embassy together with ASEAN Embassies in Amman including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei Darussalam organized an ASEAN Lecture in which Dr. Philips Jusario Vermonte, Executive Director, Centre of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta was invited to give a lecture on “ASEAN and the Middle East: Trajectories for Future Relations”
The morning session was organized at Jordan Institute of Diplomacy with 50 representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, diplomatic corps and other Jordanian organizations attended the lecture. The afternoon session was organized at the University of Jordan with about 120 students from Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II School of International Studies attended the lecture.