1. Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Sei-young had the 4th multilateral teleconference with his counterparts of countries in the region on the morning of April 10.

° The teleconference among the vice foreign ministers of 7 countries in the region -- the Republic of Korea, the United States, Japan, the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, and the Republic of India -- has taken place on a weekly basis following the first meeting on March 20.

2. The vice foreign ministers shared the developments in the spread of COVID-19 and response measures in their respective countries and agreed to continue collaboration in order for the global COVID-19 situation not to exert unnecessary impact on maintaining global supply chains and repatriating nationals.

3. Vice Minister Cho explained in detail the preventive disease control measures that the ROK government will take to ensure that, even amid the unprecedented crisis, namely the spread of COVID-19, its nationals safely exercise their voting rights in the parliamentary elections scheduled for April 15.

° In addition, the Vice Minister highly commended the ongoing cooperation among regional partners for the repatriation of their nationals, including sharing chartered flights, and voiced hope for the continuation of such cooperation.

4. The vice ministers agreed to continue close communication and collaboration across the board, including transparent information sharing, in order to effectively respond to COVID-19.