ASEAN HISTORYBY: KEVIN LIN

ASEAN HISTORY

• On 8 August 1967, the five leaders of ASEAN from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand sat down together in the main hall of the Department of Foreign Affairs building in Bangkok and signed a document.

ASEAN HISTORY

• Department of Foreign Affairs

ASEAN HISTORY

Adam Mallik, he is one of the leaders of ASEAN from Indonesia.

ASEAN HISTORY

Narciso R. Ramos is one of the 5 leader of Asean, he is from Philippines.

ASEAN HISTORY

Tun Abdul Razak is one of the 5 leaders of Asean and he is from Malaysia.

ASEAN HISTORY

S. Rajaratnam is one of the 5 leaders of ASEAN, he is from Singapore.

ASEAN HISTORY

• Thanat Khoman is one of the 5 leaders of ASEAN, he is from Thailand.

ASEAN HISTORY

• The advantage of that document, the Association of ASEAN was born. The five Foreign Ministers who signed it would later be greet as the Founding Fathers of probably the most successful inter-governmental organization in the developing world today. And the document they signed will be the ASEAN Declaration.

ASEAN HISTORY

• It was a short, simply-worded document containing just five articles. It declared the establishment of an Association for Regional Cooperation among the Countries of Southeast Asia to be known as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and spelled out the aims and purposes of that Association.

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