The Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI), launched at the Fourth ASEAN Informal Summit in Singapore in 2000, aims to narrow the divide within ASEAN and enhance ASEAN competitiveness as a region. The IAI helps ASEAN newer Member States implement ASEAN commitments and agreements. Under the 2001 Ha Noi Declaration on Narrowing the Development Gap for Closer ASEAN Integration, the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN declared to narrow the development gap within ASEAN and between ASEAN and the rest of the world for the sake of dynamic and sustained growth of the region and prosperity of ASEAN. The Ha Noi Declaration called for special assistance to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV) countries, to further regional integration in order to narrow the development gap within ASEAN.