Day: July 6, 2012

1. On behalf of my ASEAN colleagues, I extend a very warm welcome to Secretary Rice to this ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference. Secretary Rice, we are delighted by your presence here and look forward to a fruitful discussion on ways to further strengthen ASEAN-US relationship.2. The US has been a pi

Excellencies, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of ASEAN Member States; Ladies and Gentlemen,I thank His Excellency Nyan Win, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, for depositing Myanmar’s instrument of ratification of the ASEAN Charter with me today.This is the seventh instrum

WHEREAS the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, which was signed on 24 February 1976 in Bali, Indonesia, was amended by the First and the Second Protocols Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation on Southeast Asia, which were signed on 15 December 1987 and on 25 July 1998 respec

WHEREAS the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, which was signed on 24 February 1976 in Bali, Indonesia, was amended by the First and the Second Protocols Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, which were signed on 15 December 1987 and 25 July 1998, respecti