Word: asean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President now stresses Asian action on Asian problems. Nixon will ask Asian leaders the extent to which they would be willing to help supervise elections in Viet Nam and police a ceasefire. He is also lending discreet support to the embryonic five-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a means of shaping a regional community. Underlying all considerations is the overweening presence of Communist China...
Shaplen also sees a "varied and sometimes contradictory" groping toward new alliances based on regional cooperation. Groups like the ten-country Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) and the five-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), though still involved in "more discussion than action." aim to improve economic and cultural relations. They may also drift into some sort of role in regional security...
There is a gloomy mood in South east Asia these days that has nothing to do with the problems of Viet Nam. The trouble has to do with family quarrels in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The group is a promising experiment in political and economic cooperation, but today four of its five members find themselves involved in bitter nationalistic disputes. Malaysia and the Philippines are squabbling over Sabah, a small state in Borneo that now belongs to Malaysia but is claimed by the Philippines. Indonesia and Singapore are at odds over the Singapore government's execution...
...Chinese sections, burning cars and shops. The two marines were given a state funeral in Djakarta. Last week tempers had begun to cool. Foreign Minister Adam Malik, backed by President Suharto, made it completely clear that there would be no break in relations. In a further attempt to hold ASEAN on course, he offered his nation's help in mediating the Sabah dispute...
That does not seem likely, since ASEAN has grown in importance over the last year for all five of its member nations. Both the British decision to withdraw its forces east of Suez and the Paris peace talks have sharply altered Asian horizons. "Ultimately," as Ramos put it, "we have got to rely on our own resources and energies to protect our lives and our fortunes." ASEAN clearly could evolve into one means to that common...