- WE, the Association of Southeast Asia, namely Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, gathered in Vientiane, Lao PDR on the occasion of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits on 9 October 2024;
- RECOGNISING that the alarming scale of the illicit global trade, production and manufacture of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, including synthetic and designer drugs, as well as the associated diversion of and illicit demand for precursor chemicals used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, continues to adversely affect the safety and welfare of nations and their peoples including those of the ASEAN;
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