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ASEAN
ASEAN:
On 8 August 1967, five leaders - the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand - sat down together in the main hall of the Department of Foreign Affairs building in Bangkok, Thailand and signed a document.
By virtue of that document, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was born.
The five Foreign Ministers who signed it
1. Adam Malik of Indonesia
2. Narciso R. Ramos of the Philippines
3. Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia
4. S. Rajaratnam of Singapore
5. Thanat Khoman of Thailand
Would subsequently be hailed as the Founding Fathers of probably the most successful inter-governmental organization in the developing world today. And the document that they signed would be known as the ASEAN Declaration.
Documents declared the establishment of an Association for Regional Cooperation among the Countries of Southeast Asia to be known as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and spelled out the aims and purposes of that Association.
These aims and purposes were about cooperation in the economic, social, cultural, technical, educational and other fields, and in the promotion of regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter.
It proclaimed ASEAN as representing "the collective will of the nations of Southeast Asia to bind themselves together in friendship and cooperation and, through joint efforts and sacrifices, secure for their peoples and for posterity the blessings of peace, freedom and prosperity."
ASEAN Declaration, also known as the Bangkok Declaration
And that was how ASEAN was conceived, given a name, and born.
ASEAN:
On 8 August 1967, five leaders - the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand - sat down together in the main hall of the Department of Foreign Affairs building in Bangkok, Thailand and signed a document.
By virtue of that document, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was born.
The five Foreign Ministers who signed it
1. Adam Malik of Indonesia
2. Narciso R. Ramos of the Philippines
3. Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia
4. S. Rajaratnam of Singapore
5. Thanat Khoman of Thailand
Would subsequently be hailed as the Founding Fathers of probably the most successful inter-governmental organization in the developing world today. And the document that they signed would be known as the ASEAN Declaration.
Documents declared the establishment of an Association for Regional Cooperation among the Countries of Southeast Asia to be known as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and spelled out the aims and purposes of that Association.
These aims and purposes were about cooperation in the economic, social, cultural, technical, educational and other fields, and in the promotion of regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter.
It proclaimed ASEAN as representing "the collective will of the nations of Southeast Asia to bind themselves together in friendship and cooperation and, through joint efforts and sacrifices, secure for their peoples and for posterity the blessings of peace, freedom and prosperity."
ASEAN Declaration, also known as the Bangkok Declaration
And that was how ASEAN was conceived, given a name, and born.