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35789
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 18:56
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ASEAN TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO HOLD SUMMIT BEFORE FEBRUARY
Jakarta, Dec 15 (ANTARA) - ASEAN member governments have tentatively agreed to hold their 14th summit in Chiang Mai, Thailand, before February 2009, a visiting Thai minister said.
"I am glad to announce that a tentative agreement has been reached among ASEAN member countries that the ASEAN summit in Thailand will be held before February 2009," Thai Technology, Information and Communication Minister Mun Patanotai said here on Monday.
Patanotai is in Jakarta to represent the Thai government, the ASEAN chairman for the 2008-2009 period, at a meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat.
The 14th ASEAN Summit was earlier to be held in Chiang Mai in mid-December 2008. However, due to the political crisis in the country, the Thai government had decided to postpone it.
Thailand had at first announced the summit would be postponed to March 2009. However, officials in a few ASEAN member countries, including Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, forwarded the view the summit should not be postponed for too long because in March many other international agendas were waiting to be attended to.
Patanotai was at the ASEAN Secretariat to witness a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers to promulgate the ASEAN Charter.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who was also present at the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting welcomed the plan to hold the ASEAN Summit in Thailand before February 2009.
The ASEAN Charter was originally scheduled to be officially put into effect at the 14th ASEAN Summit in Thailand on December 15. But, after it became clear Thailand would be unable to host the summit on the date, Indonesia -- citing the urgency of promulgating the ASEAN Charter as something ASEAN member countries had been wishing to do for 41 years -- proposed to do it on its scheduled date (Dec 15) at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta.
Besides President Yudhoyono, ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan, ASEAN country ambassadors and a number of Indonesian cabinet ministers also attended the event.
ASEAN consists of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam.
"I am glad to announce that a tentative agreement has been reached among ASEAN member countries that the ASEAN summit in Thailand will be held before February 2009," Thai Technology, Information and Communication Minister Mun Patanotai said here on Monday.
Patanotai is in Jakarta to represent the Thai government, the ASEAN chairman for the 2008-2009 period, at a meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat.
The 14th ASEAN Summit was earlier to be held in Chiang Mai in mid-December 2008. However, due to the political crisis in the country, the Thai government had decided to postpone it.
Thailand had at first announced the summit would be postponed to March 2009. However, officials in a few ASEAN member countries, including Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, forwarded the view the summit should not be postponed for too long because in March many other international agendas were waiting to be attended to.
Patanotai was at the ASEAN Secretariat to witness a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers to promulgate the ASEAN Charter.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who was also present at the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting welcomed the plan to hold the ASEAN Summit in Thailand before February 2009.
The ASEAN Charter was originally scheduled to be officially put into effect at the 14th ASEAN Summit in Thailand on December 15. But, after it became clear Thailand would be unable to host the summit on the date, Indonesia -- citing the urgency of promulgating the ASEAN Charter as something ASEAN member countries had been wishing to do for 41 years -- proposed to do it on its scheduled date (Dec 15) at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta.
Besides President Yudhoyono, ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan, ASEAN country ambassadors and a number of Indonesian cabinet ministers also attended the event.
ASEAN consists of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam.
