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Speaking without a text, Yang went on for 25 minutes, insisting that this was a bilateral issue, not one between China and Asean.

China cherishes the long-term friendship with ASEAN countries and would like to be a good neighbor, friends and partner of ASEAN countries.

He said that he hoped to have final agreement by the next Asean finance ministers meeting in Bali in May.

He said he hopes improved U. N. and ASEAN coordination with the authorities in Burma will help scale up relief efforts quickly.

He said he has accepted ASEAN's invitation to join the East Asia Summit, which will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2011.

As someone who used to have to fly for business all the time, she knows what low cost airlines have done to empower travellers in ASEAN.

However, the area has never been determined by ASEAN as a free trade area yet. There is no blue print dealing with the area.

But what ASEAN seems to have, that the West and the United Nations do not, is the ear of Burma's rulers, however reluctantly they listen.

We stand ready to increase maritime connectivity with ASEAN and strengthen cooperation in sea transportation, maritime affairs and ports.

She said the process should be institutionalized through Asean and based on the international law of the sea.

But ASEAN is not prepared to cause a political controversy, despite its recent adoption of a charter that pays lip-service to human rights.

Mr. Natelegawa said he got the general sense from other Asean members that the hot line could be "something important. "

Asean has no minimum standards for members and so far only the vaguest principles to which they must adhere.

Even in seeking to liberalise regional trade and investment in goods and services, Asean seems to have run out of steam.

ASEAN seems to have recognized the moment, and has taken actions to deepen its integration even while reaching out to others.

Hailing the ASEAN-China relations, Surin said the ASEAN-China strategic partnership is of great significance to the ASEAN countries.

Asean itself may be little more than a talk-shop on to which trade and cultural agreements have been bolted.

The president said the U. S. as a Pacific nation has an enormous stake in the ASEAN region.

is ready to work with ASEAN countries to build on past achievements and push China-ASEAN strategic partnership to a new high.

"China holds a consistent stance that the South China Sea issue is not an issue between China and the ASEAN, " he said.

Asean, however, failed to deliver anything to Ms Rice in exchange for her piano recital.

Therefore. ASEAN walked up to the way of balance diplomacy, this stratagem could ensure the security and the tranquilization of the region.

Asean's inactivity did not really matter since the region was booming.

Mahathir appreciated Zhu's suggestion on China-ASEAN cooperation and briefed him on the economic situation in the Southeast Asia.

That will take a leap of faith from countries like Singapore, which has a special place in ASEAN.

This meeting, I believe, will mark the beginning of a new stage of development between china and ASEAN countries.

Rhodes said the president then will hold a meeting with the leaders of the 10 ASEAN nations.

APEC is scheduled to be in the Asia-Pacific to achieve the objectives of trade liberalization, the ASEAN Community would be built.

'Assuming the chairmanship of Asean isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people, ' she said.

This meeting, I believe, marks the beginning of a new stage of development in Chinese-ASEAN relations.

For all that ASEAN operates according to its famed consensus, Indonesia has been its stealth leader.

India already trades nearly as much in goods with the ASEAN region as it does with the United States.

In recent years, China's close relations with ASEAN as an organization, a strong impetus to economic ties with this region.

Laos ASEAN is the only landlocked country, has rich forest resources, among the most valuable hardwood.

The China-ASEAN FTA is a mutually beneficial systematic arrangement made by the two sides with the long-term development in mind.

ASEAN leaders, supported by the United States as an Asian Development Bank (ADB) member, will create an ASEAN Infrastructure Fund.

The meeting will review the first year of an agreement to try to double trade and investment between ASEAN and Australia and New Zealand.

The China-ASEAN FTA represents a community of shared interests established after years' of careful preparation by China and ASEAN countries.

As one of the important states of ASEAN, Vietnam is influenced by Chinese legal culture in its legal system, especially in its criminal law.

Fruit production trend in ASEAN were predicted to be up in the following years.

This thesis argues that China- ASEAN Water security cooperative nature of military conflict is far greater than the strategic.

Yunnan province is hopefully to be an important corridor of electric power cooperation between the pan-pearl river delta and the ASEAN.

Vietnam does not produce denim, but Indonesia does, and its denim can be exported tariff-free within ASEAN to sew into jeans.

Human resources development and cooperation is one of the important contents of constructing China-ASEAN Free Trade Area.

He adds that in Asia, the Asean markets appear to have attracted the most interest among the US investors he was speaking to.

ASEAN will also be looking at possible solutions to rising oil and food prices amid warnings inflation could threaten political stability.

ASEAN countries are not inclined to let a central bureaucracy develop as a challenge to national sovereignties.

But North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions were expected to dominate talks among the ASEAN foreign ministers through the week.

ASEAN is just not that sort of a club.

Since October 2009, we have provided ASEAN with a resident Climate Change Specialist to help ASEAN craft a climate change work plan.

China has decided to pledge RMB 10 million yuan in a special fund to support a variety of bilateral programs with the ASEAN countries.

The fighting has rattled other members of ASEAN, and challenges one of its main purposes - to maintain stability and peace in the region.

Mr. Obama said he has accepted the ASEAN invitation to attend the East Asia Summit, scheduled for Jakarta next year.

In the fourth Senior Forum for China-ASEAN Legal Cooperation and Development, Mr. Liang is the only representative of lawyer to give speech.

Surin appreciated and looked forward to China enhancing support and help for the ASEAN Secretariat.

ASEAN governments, supported by ADB members, will contribute to the fund to help underwrite infrastructure projects in the region.

But at ASEAN's summit in July, it spoke out for more robust regional human-rights standards and against the Burmese junta.

I believe that on this subject we will have the long-term understanding and cooperation of ASEAN countries.

Speaking to the Asean regional forum, she all but declared that the US would not allow China to coerce its smaller neighbours.

China has provided assistance and help with sincerity to ASEAN countries to help them boost economic development and improve people's lives.

Malaysia as coordinator of the ASEAN Plan of integration of textile and clothing industry, agreed to speed up the integration steps.

Clinton traveled to Bangkok for bilateral meetings with her Thai counterparts prior to attending the ASEAN gathering.

whereas the supply comes out of nationwide scientific research entities such us advanced education, overseas, above all ASEAN states.

Relations between China and ASEAN have never been as good as they are today.

Profound changes have taken place in both China and ASEAN countries.

Hun Sen said that he has decided to head a delegation to participate in the China-ASEAN commemorative summit to be held in Nanning.

At the same time, China aggressively implemented "Going Out" strategy, there was also a strong growth of Chinese investment in ASEAN.

As much the most populous country in South-East Asia, and its biggest economy, Indonesia has always played a dominant role in ASEAN.

Yang said that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the ASEAN-China dialogue relationship.

It concludes in Hanoi and bilateral meetings with Vietnamese officials and a regional dialogue with ASEAN foreign ministers.

ASEAN, China points out, has no role in disputes over sovereignty.

Thailand said it would push ahead with the building of a China-ASEAN free trade zone.

Journalist: What are the specific projects for the business between the Thai Chamber of Commerce and other ASEAN countries?

It was a great honored to have received the "Highest Appreciation Award" from the ASEAN Ladies' Circle.

That he was welcome at all is hailed by some senior regional diplomats as an historic breakthrough for ASEAN.

That ASEAN enables them to try to negotiate from a less weak position is an achievement for the organisation.

It has remained the group's guiding principle, known as the Asean Way.

However, some love may be lost between the two sides as China's trade surplus against the Asean countries grows.

That four of the original members are from Asean shows the U. S. 's growing commitment to the region, backers say.

The group will deliver recommendations to the Leaders ahead of the next ASEAN-US Leaders Meeting.

The bottom line, though, is that many Asean nations are just not used to collaborative development of their financial systems.

First, let me congratulate the launch of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area as scheduled.

ASEAN leaders should be made to establish a peace and reconciliation organizations to safeguard peace and stability in the ASEAN region.

I look forward to having shared commitments to help make cooperation spread and strengthened between ASEAN and China.

Yet ASEAN has no way of enforcing compliance.

ASEAN's new chief, Surin Pitsuwan, said the regime should get the benefit of the doubt.

'Asean must play a decisive role at this time if it desires to realize its aspirations for global leadership. '

Indeed, America and Japan, to name just two, pay considerably more into the secretariat than any one of ASEAN's proper members.

We need ASEAN and Indonesia to prove it has political will, " said Stothard. " Which means they will have to seriously consider sanctions.

I know some ASEAN countries have shown a keen interest in this topic. I would like to say that China remains a developing country.

Diplomacy appears to be making some progress in reducing tensions at the ASEAN Plus Eight defense ministers' meeting.

President Aquino failed to drum up much support for the proposal during the Asean and East Asia summit meetings.

Critics are concerned the new rights group will have no authority to address abuses in ASEAN countries, like Burma.

China - ASEAN Free Trade Area is at times against the background of gradually set up and developed.

Addressing climate change in the lower Mekong will be a priority of U. S. involvement in Southeast Asia, Clinton said at the ASEAN meeting.

China argues that ASEAN has no role in territorial issues.

However, the ASEAN agenda this year will focus not so much on proud New Asia, but probably more on floundering Old Europe.

Malaysia is one of the founders of ASEAN. China's dialogue with ASEAN started from Malaysia.

ASEAN is now the exhibition leader as well as the economic leader in the Asia region.

Mobile phones, a near ubiquitous symbol of upward mobility throughout much of this country, are seen asean impossible luxury.

China already has a trade deal with Asean, and a similar one including Japan and South Korea is being discussed.

China will forever be a good neighbor, a good partner and a good friend with ASEAN countries.

The establishment of China-ASEAN FTA has made it all the more imperative to strengthen China-ASEAN financial cooperation.

The ACMF's second aim was to upgrade Asean regulatory standards, bringing them into line with international best practices.

First, push China-ASEAN relations into a new stage of comprehensive development.

The economic layout of ASEAN member countries: the economic growth delta is an impetus of the regional economic cooperation.

"China was willing to be good friend, good neighbor and good partner of ASEAN and all Asian countries forever, " he added.

Tokyo would also appoint an ambassador to Asean, he said.

The U. S. and ASEAN committed to strengthening relations, and underscored the growing strategic importance of the relationship.

Both Japan and China are vying to influence ASEAN as it becomes a more integrated political and economic bloc.

Cambodia had asked the representatives of ASEAN and coordinating on the dispute between the two countries, Thailand but was refused.

In the long term, however, Thailand may have to give way to Indonesia as ASEAN's most popular tourist destination.

Furthermore, even if the ASEAN countries did want to move towards an "ever closer union" , it would be pretty well impossible.

The currency and economic issues in East Asia has shown that the ASEAN way needs to be supplemented by institutions.

As a matter of fact, not all ASEAN countries view China as a challenge and a threat.

He said we have set up a firm basic of China- ASEAN relation in the past and are faced with new opportunities and challenges in the future.

Mr. Obama is expected to hold another session with Asean leaders later this year in the U. S.

But Mr. Obama failed to secure any mention of political prisoners in an Asean communique.

A free-trade agreement between ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand is to be signed at the summit.

But there is always the danger in ASEAN that the process of consensus is confused with the substance of actually resolving conflicts.

China and ASEAN countries are linked by the same mountains and rivers or face each other across the sea.

He said China welcomes more ASEAN and Singaporean companies to seek business opportunities and expand their operations in China.

Whereas China rigidly sticks to its policy of non-interference in the affairs of other nations, ASEAN has moved on.

In January, Asean concluded a free-trade agreement with Beijing, giving Chinese companies preferential access to its market of 600m people.

ASEAN should respond such growing economies in a proper way for the benefit of the entire ASEAN member countries.

Vietnam as a member of ASEAN, is the entry of Chinese products into the Southeast Asian market provides an excellent springboard.

This result in the obvious differences between the managers and staff in a multinational enterprise whether it is from China or ASEAN.

Far from being a loyal client, Myanmar plays China off against India and its fellow members of ASEAN.

China will emerge as a major importer of agricultural and natural resource-intensive commodities that many ASEAN countries produce.

At an ASEAN meeting on May 19, Burma agreed to let the group coordinate international relief efforts.

China supports ASEAN in accelerating integration and community building and its leading role in regional cooperation.

S. relations are. The influence of American factor on China-ASEAN relations is probably both positive and negative.

She agrees with ASEAN that the EU is not ready yet for a seat at the grand-strategy table.

In view of China's permanent membership of the UN Security Council, ASEAN expressed high appreciation for that stance.

As the most dynamic part of Asia economically, China and ASEAN are both at a critical juncture of transition in development.

Meanwhile, ASEAN countries have become increasingly keen for America to come closer, if only as a balance against a rising China.

Philippines Senator Aquilino Pimentel says ASEAN countries also are in a position to help.

The alleged Chinese threat to ASEAN states, moreover, turns out to be more hype than fact.

However, the strategies of the United States, Japan and Russiatowards ASEAN are defined by either realist or liberalist models.

Malaysia's prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, says ASEAN's hallowed principle of non-interference must be "updated" .

And in the margins of the ASEAN meetings North and South Korea held their first public talks for two-and-a-half years.

Furthering the economics and trade to develop between China and ASEAN can draw on the experience of the research results to this paper.

The EAS will not replace the ASEAN Summit. The ASEAN leaders may continue its practice to hold an internal meeting before EAS.

Thank you for inviting the ASEAN Secretariat to this gathering of media practitioners and policy makers.

Later today she will sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in a sign that the US is re-engaging in this part of the world.

Second, bring along ASEAN member countries as parts of the rim to get benefit from the cooperation.

China and ASEAN countries are geographical neighbors and culturally connected with a long history of friendly contacts.

Last November, Obama sat down with all 10 ASEAN leaders, the first time an American president had taken that step.

New transport links are being built to expand China's burgeoning trade with its ASEAN neighbors.

ASEAN has looked to the EU economic community as a model for its own economic integration plans.

We believe that a strong, integrated ASEAN will serve broader regional interests in stability and prosperity.

At the Fifth China-ASEAN Summit, the two sides agreed to gradually establish a China-ASEAN free trade zone in the next 10 years.

So a key goal of Clinton's visit must be to pull together with the Asian leaders present at the Asean regional forum.

Asean as an entity is probably far too diverse to bring about such a shift.

It now seems that the crisis of 1997 was not the cause of Asean's woes but rather a highly dramatic symptom.

At the last major Asean meetings, in July, China agreed to participate in multilateral talks on the issue.

ASEAN members include Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The U. N. chief will also attend a joint U. N. -ASEAN donors conference for the cyclone victims.

Address & Conditions for Construction: The project locates at the commercial and residential zone in Guangxi-ASEAN Youth Industrial Park.

But under Suharto Indonesia led by stealth, through the power of veto, rather than as ASEAN's public face.

With the development of the economic exchanges with ASEAN countries, China's investment in ASEAN began to gradually warming.

They say ASEAN's engagement policy with Burma has failed to produce credible steps toward democracy.

Above all, ASEAN hopes that America will be in a better position to help keep the peace in the South China Sea.

Meanwhile, some ASEAN officials expect that China will sign a code of conduct at the end of this year.

Some regional diplomats see the Asean group as the kernel of a broader free-trade bloc spanning the Pacific.

Hanoi clings doggedly to its claim, but its ASEAN partners show no signs of rallying in support.

By pursuing all three, the ACMF hopes to facilitate longer-term flows into Asean markets, both from within the region and from outside it.

It uses ASEAN as a market for selling high-value Chinese manufactured goods while buying from it low-value agricultural produce.

Analysts say the Asean nations won't want to rock the boat with China too much.

ASEAN played a key role in brokering an agreement between Burma and the United Nations in a bid to speed up relief efforts.

Neither he nor ASEAN ministers gave a time frame for the negotiations.

ASEAN is the ASEAN summit the highest decision making body, meets twice a year.

Q: The ASEAN Regional Forum will be held in Thailand next week. What's your expectation for that?

Prof Sally warns that further progress between China and Asean, and indeed the rest of the east Asia region, will be hard.

With China - ASEAN Free Trade Area of the accelerated pace of the two fruits are worth looking forward to the prospects of trade.

A: We welcome the attendance of leaders of ASEAN countries in the upcoming China-ASEAN Expo to be held in Nanning.

China is committed to good neighborly relations, friendship and cooperation with ASEAN countries and China-ASEAN strategic partnership.

China's national strength, many ASEAN countries wish to attract enterprises to invest in development.

China still insists it wants to negotiate bilaterally with the ASEAN countries with partial claims, which also include Brunei and Malaysia.

Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister, campaigned hard for his proposal at a series of Asean-related summits last week.

The Kingdom of Cambodia are ASEAN members, located in the southern part of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia, ? and?

The ASEAN Regional Forum has made substantive achievements in the transition from confidence-building measures to preventive diplomacy.

Furthermore, Chinese investments in ASEAN have been diversified in both their industry and patterns.

The big security problem is the South China Sea, which borders many of the Asean countries but is claimed almost in its entirety by Beijing.

There is also a question of whether others will recognize the emerging ASEAN.

A summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its regional partners took place in Hua Hin, Thailand.

'When a superpower comes it brings a lot of its own agenda, ' said Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan.

The speech of Premier Wen found strong echo among the leaders of ASEAN member countries.

But, an ASEAN diplomat sniffs, Indonesia should keep its own ambitions in check, lest the tables are turned in future.

I am pleased to have this opportunity, once again, to affirm the commitment of the United States to our partnership with ASEAN.

China-ASEAN cooperation in combating transnational crime is a bilateral political, economic and trade development needs.

The proposal must still be approved by the leaders of the Asean countries, who will meet at an annual summit in December.

It needs to increase the form of legal assistance between China and ASEAN countries.

In short, we want to be a good friend, good neighbor and good partner of ASEAN and Asian countries for ever.

Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, opted not to attend some Asean meetings.

The already substantive and multifaceted ASEAN-WIPO cooperation had extended into various areas of IP involving a multitude of stakeholders.

Therefore, China must strengthen cross-culture intercourse with ASEAN and give full play to the role of bilateral international regime.

In particular, it will explore the establishment of a new ASEAN-China growth pole through promoting the Pan Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation.

Several Asean members -- notably Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore -- are heavily dependent on exports to fuel their economies.

International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) calls on Rangoon and the Asean governments to acknowledge media rights during elections.

With the implementation of the Trade in Goods Agreement of China-ASEAN FTA, China's exports to ASEAN ries witnessed tremendous growth.

The recent increase in the number of exhibitions in ASEAN reflects the growing regional economy.

This paper analyses the background, status quo and significance of non-traditional security cooperation between China and ASEAN in detail.

Leaders adopted the Five-year ASEAN-United States Plan of Action, a roadmap for expanding our strategic cooperation.

Asean members are at different stages of development , have different regulations and market rules and different technology .

Officials like to point to this year's decision by Volkswagen of Germany to assemble cars in Java for the ASEAN market.

China and ASEAN should vigorously strengthen exchanges and cooperation in culture, education, tourism and youth affairs.

To strengthen our good-neighborly partnership of mutual trust with ASEAN is an important component of China? s diplomacy.

Facilitate the more effective economic integration of the new ASEAN Member States and bridge the development gap among the Parties.

These days, however, if any countries can sway the junta they are the regional ones: ASEAN, especially Thailand; India; and above all China.

The situation is to be discussed on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit.

Asean Regional Forum is a forum to discuss security and security cooperation. We are not in favour of discussing the South China Sea issue .

As a neighbor of ASEAN countries, China has as always attached importance to the relations with ASEAN.

Others must be brought on board, especially the regional forum hosts, Asean and Thailand.

The increase of products exported to ASEAN countries from China will certainly promote our communication in fields of trade and production.

The deal is seen as a vital step towards the establishment by 2015 of a China-Asean free trade area.

Inspired by the European model, the ASEAN region wants economic integration and a single market by 2015.

China is already closer to Asean and a key player with respect to Myanmar, North Korea, and other sticky issues.

Besides the intra-Asian trade deals, Asian states are creating new security institutions with ASEAN as the core.

The other ASEAN members argued that "constructive engagement" with Myanmar would achieve more than sanctions.

Other economists dispute this claim noting that both ASEAN and China experienced simultaneous rapid export growth in the early 1990s.

A China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement came into effect in January, forming an economic bloc of 1. 9 billion people.

We have sent our first permanent U. S. ambassador, Ambassador Carden, to ASEAN, and joined the ministerial dialogue on defense and security.

The China-Vietnam travel cooperation will become the model of world economic cooperation and China-ASEAN free-trade area construction.

ASEAN complimented the active and important role of China in promoting the six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula.

Decisionmaking among ASEAN member countries is characterized by consensus, noninterference and avoidance of confrontation.

Surin made positive comments on ASEAN-China relations and appreciated China's support of ASEAN integration and community-building.

Baird will attend a meeting of the ASEAN regional security forum on the Indonesian island of Bali following the China trip.

The First China - Asean Business and Investment Summit to be held in Nanning , Guangxi .

Malaysia appreciates China's consistent efforts to strengthen cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), he said.

Before leaving Thailand, Wen and ASEAN leaders also attended the signing ceremonies of several cooperation documents.

But still ASEAN refused to allow any mention in the closing ASEM chairman's statement even of the EU's aspiration to join.

Third, was to build trust in Asean standards through mutual recognition regimes.

The Democratic Progressive Party may object to CECA . But it cannot deny the impact of ASEAN plus N on Taiwan's economic lifeblood.

China - ASEAN Economic and trade cooperation is in the history the most active, the most productive period.

At several points during the speech, Campbell highlighted the important role ASEAN is playing and can play in the region.

Foreign and finance ministers from Southeast Asia began arriving Thursday in Hua Hin, Thailand, for the ASEAN summit.

ASEAN and China have stood with each other in tiding over the difficulties of the two financial crises.

Negotiation and feasibility study on FTA are intensified between China and ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand and Chile, among others.

China - ASEAN Free Trade Area launched, the China-ASEAN trade between the 90% of products enjoying zero tariff treatment.

This was on dramatic display at the ASEAN regional forum in Hanoi in July.

The Crawford meeting is meant to mend relations with ASEAN leaders who view America's commitment to the region with great skepticism .

But Asean's growing political importance is largely a function of its location.

The ASEAN meeting comes just ahead of a visit to Burma by U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon .

The China-ASEAN cooperation on business, investment and contracting projects will present an active and thriving vision.

WIPO and Singapore had also organized an Asean Pacific IP Symposium earlier that month on intellectual property for development.

We also have conducted journalist exchanges between ASEAN and the United States.

Strengthening China-ASEAN regional economic cooperation helps realize the maximum of interests.

Only 5% of ASEAN trade takes advantage of the preferences its officials so painstakingly negotiated.

This paper analyzes the present situation and hindrance of ASEAN sanitation against the background of Southeast Asia after the cold war.