So the President is going to attend the ASEAN meeting and the EAS meeting.
Despite ASEAN's preferences, the globalization of its conferences means that blunt language is sometimes heard.
He is keen on developing the ASEAN market, particularly Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Only 15% of Indonesia's imports come from ASEAN countries, representing about 2% of GDP.
Despite a recent agreement by ASEAN economic ministers to accelerate AFTA's implementation, threats of delays lurk.
Today President Obama met with the Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Working Lunch with ASEAN leaders
In the end, six of ASEAN's 10 dialogue partners - Canada, Japan, the U.S., the E.
Indeed, for a time it seemed ASEAN was back to its old, all-for-one-and-one-for-all camaraderie.
The joke in Manila last week was that ASEAN was actually NATO in disguise.
Manila has also been the USA's staunchest supporter in regional groupings such as Asean.
The leaders also pledged to move faster to launch the ASEAN Investment Area (AIA).
Ranariddh was to meet an ASEAN delegation later in the day to accept the proposal.
Once cultural and economic ties are on track, ASEAN can more comfortably tackle political challenges.
The association's leaders should redouble their efforts to inculcate an "ASEAN spirit" in the region's populations.
The ASEAN Ten, quite simply, will not be the same as the ASEAN Six.
But we also genuinely feel Asean can contribute to an exchange like ours a lot.
ASEAN's effectiveness, as well as its membership, will be one stalk short of a bundle.
On January 1st China's FTA with ASEAN, the world's biggest by population, came into effect.
ECONOMIST: Regional economic integration has a long, long way to go
We looked forward to the launch of the U.S.-ASEAN Prize for Women in Science.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
We welcomed U.S. efforts to build people-to-people ties between the United States and ASEAN.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
The first test for the new ASEAN will be how it deals with the SLORC conundrum.
Though the expansion of ASEAN is largely symbolic, the European Union started much the same way.
Anwar was not the only leader to suggest that ASEAN needed to do better.
That combination would have been quite formidable for the prospects of change in ASEAN.
The old guard apparently thought ASEAN was doing just fine, thank you very much.
ASEAN's members will not countenance any reduction in sovereignty for the sake of deeper economic integration.
ASEAN, especially in its most open democracies, Thailand and the Philippines, have deeper worries.
During the two-hour session, the six delivered frank assessments of ASEAN and its future.
ASEAN's carrot and the West's stick that brought this brief but so far vain moment of hope.
Regional trading agreements, such as the one ASEAN launched in the early 1990s, do both.
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