![The foreign ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia at the Fifth MIKTA foreign ministers meeting, Seoul, South Korea, May 22, 2015 (Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs photo).](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/l_mikta_06082015.png?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
Last month, the foreign ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia met in Seoul for the fifth round of so-called MIKTA foreign ministerial meeting. In an email interview, Günther Maihold, the Guillermo and Alejandro de Humboldt chair at the College of Mexico, discussed the MIKTA grouping. WPR: What was the impetus behind the creation of the MIKTA grouping, and what are the main areas of cooperation between the MIKTA countries? Günther Maihold: When the foreign ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2013 and […]