1 The Fifteenth Meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) was convened in Singapore on 24 July 2008. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. George Yeo, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Singapore. 2 The Meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers and Representatives of all ARF participants. The Secretary-General of ASEAN was [...]
1. The ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference (PMC) +1 Sessions with ASEAN's ten Dialogue Partners, namely Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States were held in Singapore on 23 July 2008. Australia 2. The ASEAN PMC+1 with Australia was co-chaired by H.E. [...]
Reflections on the ASEAN Dispute Settlement Mechanism” (DSM) was the second presentation in the ASEAN Secretariat Brown Bag Series which was launched by the ASEAN Secretary-General, Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, on 4 July 2008, at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta. It was organised in collaboration with the ASEAN-EU Programme for Regional Integration Support – Phase II (APRIS [...]
1 The EAS Foreign Ministers’ Informal Consultations was held on 22 July 2008 in Singapore. The Consultations were chaired by H.E. George Yeo, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Singapore. 2 The Ministers had a wide-ranging and fruitful exchange of views on key regional and international issues. Amidst volatile and escalating oil prices, [...]
1. The 9th Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN and the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea was held in Singapore on 22 July 2008. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. George Yeo, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Singapore. 2. Recalling the Ministers’ decisions at the 40th [...]
Today, the Government of the Union of Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United Nations (UN) released the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) report. This assessment – commissioned as part of the tri-partite cooperation between the Government of the Union of Myanmar, ASEAN and the United Nations – provides the first comprehensive [...]