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OBJECTIVES:
Foundation
Purposes
Expansion of members
Free trade
Environmental moves
Promotes Pan-asianism
Bangkok, Thailand
ASEAN declaration
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To promote regional peace and stability To promote active collaboration and mutual
through abiding respect for justice and the rule of assistance on matters of common interest in
law in the relationship among countries of the the economic, social, cultural, technical, scientific
region and adherence to the principles of the and administrative fields
United Nations Charter
To provide assistance to each other in the To collaborate more effectively for the
form of training and research facilities in greater utilisation of their agriculture and
the educational, professional, technical and industries, the expansion of their trade,
administrative spheres including the study of the problems of
international commodity trade, the improvement
of their transportation and communications
facilities and the raising of the living
standards of their peoples
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PURPOSE: to ensure cooperation, coordination The non-interference norm requires that ASEAN
and correlation among member nations while refrain both from criticizing member governments'
observing “respect to each sovereign member actions towards their own citizens and from making
the domestic political system of states and the
country”, while retaining “domestic issues” within political styles of governments a basis for deciding
a state, an affair “internal” to the particular state their membership in ASEAN
rather than an issue of discussion among member
nations.
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After this, the Western powers put more pressure Consequently, ASEAN ministers, for the first
on ASEAN to resolve the issue. The EU boycotted time, jointly urged Myanmar to release Aung San
any meeting or cooperation project with ASEAN Suu Kyi and NLD members. In 2004, with no
that Myanmar participated in.31 Washington also progress toward democratization in Myanmar, the
stalled free-trade talks with ASEAN to signal its US and some EU members, led by the UK,
disapproval of Myanmar's political behavior. threatened not to attend the 2006 ASEAN
Summit chaired by Myanmar unless Myanmar
released Ms. Suu Kyi from house arrest. Powerful
ASEAN members such as Malaysia, Singapore
and Indonesia pressured Myanmar to relinquish
its position as chair.
So, ASEAN sent an envoy headed by the
Malaysian Foreign Minister to Myanmar in 2006
to examine Myanmar's progress in improving its
human rights conditions.
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