Foreign Minister Cho Hyun has attended EU-Indo-Pacific and MIKTA foreign ministers' meetings in New York and discussed cooperation among like-minded nations, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Cho attended a meeting of foreign ministers from the European Union (EU) and four Indo-Pacific countries, including Australia, India and Japan, on Monday (local time) on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week, according to the ministry. Cho, along with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong; Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar; Kazuya Endo, a senior official at Japan's foreign ministry; EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas; and representatives from EU member states, discussed the importance of a rules-based international order and ways to strengthen security cooperation amid heightened global uncertainties. Cho expressed concern over deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia, and stressed the importance of strengthening security cooperation between the EU and the Indo-Pacific region. "Participants shared Cho's assessment and agreed that cooperation among