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20th ASEAN Summit to promote ASEAN community: Thai foreign ministry
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-03-29 16:25

Leaders from 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members are to adopt three declarations in a move to achieve the goal of ASEAN Community envisioned in 2015, a senior official at Thai Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Arthayudh Srisamoot, director-general of the Department of ASEAN Affairs, told a press briefing that during the five-day summit, ASEAN leaders are expected to adopt three documents, including Phnom Penh Declaration on ASEAN: One Community, One Destiny; the ASEAN's Leaders' Declaration on Drug Free ASEAN 2015; and the Concept Paper on Global Movement of the Moderates.

Cambodia, whose chairmanship was handed over from Indonesia last year, will host,for the first time the ASEAN summit scheduled for March 30-April 4. It has vowed to continue to intensify efforts aimed at building a rule-based, people-oriented and fully integrated ASEAN Community by 2015.

The summit is likely to address the issue of creating regional connectivity which involves development of infrastructure, building of people-to-people based relationship and improvement of institutional rules and regulations as part of the attempt to realize ASEAN Community.

In addition, the ASEAN leaders are expected to discuss ways to enhance the region's resilience against possible future natural disasters and help the country members share their technologies and knowledge.

Cambodia will also hold other related ministerial meetings. Meanwhile, the ASEAN foreign ministers will sign ASEAN Statement on the Protocol to the Treaty on Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone and the Instrument incorporating the Rules to the Protocol on the ASEAN Charter on Dispute Settlement Mechanisms.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and the Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul will also attend the meeting, the director-general added.

Founded in 1967, ASEAN at present consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Source:Xinhua 
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