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ASEAN Secretariat Policy Forum – “The ASEAN Charter: One Year On”

 

Next week will mark the first anniversary of the coming into force of the ASEAN Charter. To mark the event, a special forum will be held at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. The ASEAN Secretariat Policy Forum – “The ASEAN Charter: One Year On”, will bring a panel of three of the most eminent and distinguished citizens of ASEAN to examine and discuss various aspects of the making of the ASEAN Charter, its application, challenges and future prospects.

 

The panel will consist of Tun Musa bin Hitam, Chairman of the Eminent Persons Group on the Charter, and Ambassador Rosario G. Manalo and Ambassador Tommy Koh, Chairpersons of the High Level Task Force on the Drafting of the Charter. They are expected to draw upon their own thoughts on the intent and dreams of the framers of the Charter, the thinking of the ASEAN Leaders on the importance of the Charter to ASEAN Community-building, and their own experiences during the drafting of the terms of reference and the making of the Charter.

 

The ASEAN Charter had officially entered into force on 15 December 2008 at a gathering of ASEAN Foreign Ministers at the ASEAN Secretariat.

 

The second in a series, the ASEAN Secretariat Policy Forum: “The ASEAN Charter: One Year On” is open to the public. The forum will be held at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, on 16 December 2009, 10 am – 12 pm. For registration of attendance, please e-mail full details to theresia.tobing@asean.org.

 

The ASEAN Secretariat Policy Forum, which is a seminar series organised by the ASEAN Secretariat, aims to promote intellectual debate and discussion with experts from ASEAN and elsewhere on the political, security, economic, social, cultural and environmental issues that affect ASEAN and the international community and which can contribute to policy-making and decisions.