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12 January 2007
– His Majesty the Sultan and yang
Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam
attended a meeting between ASEAN
Heads of State and Government with
members of the Eminent Persons Group
(EPG) on the ASEAN Charter at the
Cebu International Convention
Centre.
During the meeting, His Majesty
expressed appreciation to the EPG
for coming up with recommendations
on the ASEAN Charter and was pleased
with their overall report.
His Majesty commended the EPG’s
resolve to realize an ASEAN
Community and ultimately an ASEAN
Union. His Majesty further stated
that the EPG’s proposal on
strengthening ASEAN as an
organization was very crucial for
ASEAN’s future.
His Majesty also said that he would
like the High Level Task Force on
the Drafting of the ASEAN Charter to
use the EPG recommendations as the
basis for drafting the Charter.
His Majesty supported the
recommendations of the Eminent
Persons Group on the need to ensure
the ASEAN Secretariat is effective
and emphasized that the Secretariat
should be given the resources
required, especially financial and
personnel support as well as the
necessary mandate in helping to
carry out and facilitate ASEAN’s
various programmes and agreements.
His Majesty highlighted that ASEAN
had made economic integration as
priority and called on the need to
ensure that a newly reformed
secretariat fulfilled these
objectives and recognized the
importance of the political will in
order to move forward |
