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ASEAN stepping into new era
SINGAPORE. Jan 25 : South East Asia stands on the threshold of a new era as six leaders gather for a landmark summit that will break new economic ground and draw attention to security, although questions about its political unity remain, reports Reuter.
Analysts said leaders of the Association of South East Asian NatlonslASEAN) holding their fourth summit next week will give their seal of approval to a tariff reduction scheme to create In ASEAN free trade area by the year 2008.
The summit will also call for a "higher plane of political and economic cooperation* in the face of large economic groupings forming elsewhere in the world, and seek to forge better ties with Indochina, a senior ASEAN officials said
The anti-communist grouping formed in 1967 gained momentum only after it embarked on an International campaign throughout the 1980s to condemn Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia.
With the United Nations-brokered negotiated settlement of the Cambodian conflict, ASEAN — which has some ^of the world's fastest-growing
economies — has found a fresh focus in economic cooperation.
Foreign and economic ministers of ASEAN members Brunei. Indonesia. Malaysia, the Philippines. Singapore and Thailand have ended two days of talks ahead of the summit, which will chart directions for the group In the 1990s and beyond, officials and analysts said.
This is a tremendous breakthrough." Philippine Foreign Minister Raul Manglapus said of ASEAN's decision to discuss security Issues more openly.
The breakup of the Soviet Union, political changes in Eastern Europe, growing economic regionalisation in North America and the European Community have prompted the group to re-examine its roles and its future. .
Potential conflict over overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea will prompt ASEAN leaders to intensify cooperation in regional security and start more dialogue with other countries on security issues. ASEAN officials said.
But political differences among the member nations
hate also arisen over the level of ASEAN’s Involvement with "outside power.' analysts said.
Thailand had proposed that ASEAN invite the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — the United States. Russia. China. Britain and France — to accede to Its 1976 treaty of amity and cooperation which calls for signatories to respect territorial integrity and settle disputes peacefully.
Analysts said such a move, besides giving ASEAN more recognition, could have allowed Involvement by the five big powers tn,security problems in the region.
But Indonesian Foreign Minister All Alatas voiced objections. saying the treaty is part of a larger concept embodied in a 1971 Malaysian-proposed declaration to turn Southeast Asia into a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality, 'Political differences "also halted Malaysia's plan to win endorsement for its controversial East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC) proposal. ASUAN officials saki
Malaysia had wanted ASEAN to with booming East Asian economies in EAEC to give
Asia a large collective voice following the signing of the North America free trade agreement and economic and monetary union in the European Community.
But Indonesia, apparently miffed that ASEAN was not first consulted, has asked to refine the idea further while other ASEAN states fear that endorsing it would anger the United States, a major trading partner of the region of 320 million people.
The ASEAN states, however. are unanimous that Indochinese countries should eventually join their ranks, starting with Vietnam and Laos which have asked to accede to the 1976 treaty.
The six leaders would also agree to help in the economic reconstruction of Vietnam. Laos and war-ravaged Cambodia. and create a "greater Southeast Asia. “ASEAN officials and analysts said.
They said the summit could set the stage for ASEAN to eventually grow to a 10-mem-ber grouping as ideological dif-' ferences between them. Indochina and Burma 'fade away with the end of the cold war and the demise of communism.