While this year’s General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) is being held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event would still create great momentum for ASEAN parliaments to redouble efforts for lessening the adverse impacts of the pandemic on livelihoods, stressed Philippines’ Deputy Speaker Raneo Abu and Chairman of the Committee for Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation under the Indonesian House of Representatives Fadli Zo during interviews with Vietnam News Agency.