Day: July 29, 2002

Your Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen.It is a great pleasure for our government and people to host the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN. I am delighted to welcome you all, and our guest, His Excellency Jose Ramos-Horta, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of East Timor.This is the

Responding to Challenges: Securing A Better Future

1. We, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), met in Bandar Seri Begawan to review regional and international political and economic developments, bearing in mind our resolve, to take full advantage of the o