The Heads of State/Government of ASEAN Member States collected in Kuala
Lumpur and Langkawi, Malaysia for a 26th ASEAN Summit on Apr 26-27.
At a finish of a event, a Chairman’s Statement of a Summit was
issued, in that ASEAN leaders common their vicious concerns expressed
by some leaders on a land reclamation being undertaken in a East Sea
(internationally famous as a South China Sea).
Following is a full content of a Chairman’s Statement of a 26th ASEAN Summit.
We,
the Heads of State/Government of ASEAN Member States, collected in Kuala
Lumpur and Langkawi, Malaysia for a 26th ASEAN Summit on 26-27 April
2015, had prolific discussions underneath a thesis ‘Our People, Our
Community, Our Vision’ that reflects a overarching suggestion of
Malaysia’s Chairmanship, namely to emanate a truly people-oriented,
people-centred ASEAN comprising all areas of domestic and security
cooperation, mercantile expansion and socio-cultural development.
2. We voiced low and intense condolences to a Government and
people of Singapore on a passing of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew,
a loyal Statesman who had done poignant contributions to his country,
to ASEAN and to informal community-building.
3. We
fully upheld a 8 priorities for ASEAN summarized by Malaysia
during her Chairmanship in 2015, namely to rigourously settle a ASEAN
Community; to rise a ASEAN Community’s post-2015 vision; to steer
ASEAN closer to a peoples; to strengthen a expansion of SMEs in
the region; to lift intra-ASEAN trade and investments; to strengthen
ASEAN’s institutions; to inspire informal assent and certainty through
moderation; and to lift ASEAN’s purpose as a tellurian player.
4. We adopted a following papers as outcomes of a Summit:
- Kuala Lumpur Declaration on a People-Oriented, People-Centred ASEAN
- Langkawi Declaration on a Global Movement of Moderates
- Declaration on Institutionalising a Resilience of ASEAN and it’s
Communities and Peoples to Disasters and Climate Change
ASEAN COMMUNITY BUILDING
5. We are gratified with a certain swell done given 2009 in
implementing a Roadmap for an ASEAN Community comprising a ASEAN
Political Security Community (APSC), ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and
the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Blueprints, a Initiative for
ASEAN Integration (IAI) Strategic Framework and IAI Work Plan II
(2009-2015) as good as a Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity, that have
all contributed towards substantiating an ASEAN Community by a finish of
2015.
6. We concluded to serve feature a work to
realise an ASEAN Community that is politically cohesive, economically
integrated and socially obliged in sequence to take advantage of
current and destiny opportunities, and effectively respond to regional
and general challenges.
7. We expressed
satisfaction during a doing of a supplies of a ASEAN
Charter in providing a authorised standing and institutional horizon for
ASEAN given a adoption in 2007. We urged ASEAN Member States to ratify
all superb authorised instruments underneath a ASEAN Charter in a timely
manner.
8. We continued to inspire a ASEAN
Coordinating Council (ACC) and a ASEAN Community Councils, with the
support of a applicable Senior Officials and a Committee of Permanent
Representatives to ASEAN (CPR) to practice a recommendations of the
High Level Task Force on Strengthening a ASEAN Secretariat and
Reviewing a ASEAN Organs within a stipulated timeframes.
9. We are gratified to acquire a swell done so distant in developing
the ASEAN Community’s Vision and a attendant papers for a three
community pillars for a duration of 2016-2025. We looked brazen to the
submission of a papers by a ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) at
the 27th ASEAN Summit.
ASEAN POLITICAL-SECURITY COMMUNITY
10. We validated a Treaty of Amity and Co-operation in Southeast
Asia (TAC) as a pivotal formula of control ruling inter-State family in
the segment and a substructure for a upkeep of informal assent and
stability. We concluded to counsel on requests done by countries to
accede to a TAC, in suitability with a revised discipline for
accession.
11. We reiterated a joining to
implementing a Treaty on a Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone
(SEANWFZ Treaty) and a Plan of Action and called on a Nuclear Weapon
States to cruise signing a Protocol to a SEANFWZ Treaty to
further inspire Southeast Asia as a segment giveaway of chief weapons and
all other weapons of mass destruction.
ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly
12. We welcomed a poignant grant by AIPA to a ASEAN
Community-building routine and appreciated a interface with
Representatives of AIPA. We are assured that AIPA Representatives are
significant intermediaries in a realization of a “People-Centred
ASEAN” as it is good placed to strech out directly to a people of ASEAN
and inspire a significance of an ASEAN Community and a benefits. We
looked brazen to a convening of a 36th AIPA on 6 – 12 September
2015 in Kuala Lumpur.
Global Movement of Moderates
13. We welcomed a adoption of a 2015 Langkawi Declaration on the
Global Movement of Moderates, that comprehensively outlines the
philosophy of
moderation, that is an determined ASEAN value,
in all a dimensions. We recognized that mediation is an
all-encompassing proceed not usually in solution differences and
conflicts peacefully though also for ensuring tolerable and inclusive
development and estimable expansion as good as compelling amicable assent and
mutual bargain within countries and regions.
ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM)
14. We recognized a vicious purpose of a ASEAN Defence Ministers
towards a realization of a ASEAN Political-Security Community and
welcomed a joining of a 9th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting
(ADMM) that met in Langkawi, Malaysia, on 16 Mar 2015 in addressing
common certainty hurdles and a oath to respond collectively to the
threat of nonconformist organization in a region.
15.
We serve remarkable a proposals done during a 9th ADMM to titillate the
region’s response to non-traditional certainty hurdles on a basement of
flexible, intentional and non-binding appearance by ASEAN member
states, including a adoption of a Concept Paper on ASEAN Militaries
Ready Group on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) and
the Concept Paper on a Establishment of an ASEAN Centre of Military
Medicine (ACMM).
Response to a Rise of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
16. We welcomed a convening of a East Asia Summit Symposium on
Religious Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration, hold in Singapore on
16 – 17 Apr 2015 and looked brazen to a convening of a Special
ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on a Rise of Radicalisation and Violent
Extremism (SAMMRRVE) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as contributing to
addressing a flourishing hazard of radicalisation and aroused extremism,
and a genuine and benefaction risk it poses to a ASEAN region.
Establishment of a ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug Matters
17. We welcomed a preference of a ASEAN Ministers obliged for
drug matters to institutionalise a ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug
Matters that will yield domestic procedure to ASEAN team-work on
drug matters and critical superintendence to a Senior Officials on Drug
Matters on a Drug-Free ASEAN.
ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights
18. We commended a work of AICHR in a graduation and insurance of
all tellurian rights and elemental freedoms of a peoples of ASEAN. We
acknowledged persisting efforts by AICHR to streamline a programmes and
activities via 2015. We looked brazen to a finalisation of
AICHR’s second Five-Year Work Plan 2016-2020, to be adopted during the
forthcoming ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
in Aug 2015.
ASEAN Regional Forum Disaster Relief Exercises
19. We looked brazen to a convening of a ARF Disaster Relief
Exercises (ARF DiREx), to be hold in Kedah and Perlis, Malaysia on 24-28
May 2015 that will minister towards strengthening civilian-military
coordination and support a effective doing of a ASEAN
Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) during the
strategic and operational levels by a Table Top Exercise (TTX) and
at a tactical turn by a Field Training Exercise (FTX).
ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
20. We were confident that a ASEAN economy grew by 4.4 per cent in
2014 amid hurdles in a tellurian economy. Domestic direct in our
economies has remained resilient, upheld especially by private
consumption. There were strong inflows of investments to a region,
which in 2014 stood during USD136.2 billion, reflecting a 15.7 per cent
year-on-year growth. ASEAN’s sum trade was fast in 2014, amounting
to USD2.53 trillion, a extrinsic boost of 0.8 per cent from the
previous year.
21. The ASEAN mercantile expansion is
projected to titillate in 2015 to 4.9 per cent, good above a latest
global expansion projections of 3.5 per cent. Investment is approaching to
further increase, as a ASEAN segment stays an appealing investment
destination with a investiture of a AEC and with continued focus
on infrastructure expansion to titillate connectivity.
22. We remarkable a fortitude swell done in a doing of the
AEC Blueprint, and welcomed a full doing to date of 458
measures of a AEC Scorecard targeted for ASEAN-wide implementation
over a duration 2008-2015. We commended a ASEAN Economic Ministers’
(AEM) marker of tentative prioritised pivotal deliverables with the
highest trade impact and that can be implemented within a year. In the
context of a entirely implemented measures to date and a high-priority
measures identified by a AEM for doing within 2015, we noted
that a stream rate of doing of a AEC Scorecard stands at
90.5 per cent out of 506 measures.
23. We are
generally confident with a swell in a doing of a AEC
measures, that by a adoption of a frameworks of manners and
various liberalisation and facilitation measures, is promulgation a strong
signal that a segment is relocating brazen as an mercantile village by 1
January 2016. Since a adoption of a AEC Blueprint in 2007, the
implementation of AEC measures have delivered many advantages to ASEAN
businesses and consumers, from poignant tariff liberalisation,
efforts to titillate trade facilitation measures through
self-certification, harmonisation of technical regulations and
standards, simplification of etiquette procedures, and a Mutual
Recognition Arrangements on a transformation of learned professionals in the
region. In fostering a business-enabling environment, ASEAN has also
put in place authorised structures on competition, consumer insurance and
intellectual property.
24. We welcomed a further
elimination of tariffs by Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam on 1
January 2015. We welcomed swell in this area, with a rejecting of
duties on a remaining 7 per cent tariff lines by 2018, that will
further minister to a expansion of a some-more integrated regional
market.
25. We serve welcomed efforts taken
towards building a extensive movement devise on trade facilitation and
endorsed a reactivation of a ASEAN Trade Facilitation Joint
Consultative Committee (ATF-JCC), comprising a open and private
sectors, with a latter’s inclusion to inspire a some-more active purpose in
identifying specific issues as good as foster in ways to revoke or
eliminate non-tariff barriers in a region.
26. We
also welcomed a preference to titillate on a ASEAN Consultation to
Resolve Trade and Investment Issues (ACT), an internet-based mechanism
intended as a network of supervision focal points between ASEAN Member
States to residence operational issues encountered in a implementation
of mercantile agreements, and that will be re-launched by year’s end.
27. We were speedy by a signing of a Protocol on a Legal
Framework to Implement a ASEAN Single Window (PLF-ASW), that would
expedite a doing of a ASW measures. We speedy all
Member States to attend in a doing of ASW in December
2015. We were gratified with a entrance into force of a ASEAN Agreement
on Customs in Nov 2014, and welcomed a execution of a signing
of Protocol 7 on Customs underneath a ASEAN Framework Agreement on the
Facilitation of Goods in Transit (AFAFGIT). These developments would
support a giveaway upsurge of products opposite a segment and lift intra-ASEAN
trade.
28. We remarkable with compensation that despite
the hurdles faced by Member States, good swell has been done in
the liberalisation of services underneath a ASEAN Framework Agreement on
Services (AFAS). We looked brazen to a execution of a final AFAS
package by finish of 2015, as this would lead to estimable formation of
the services sector, and to means and attract unfamiliar direct
investments into a region.
29. We welcomed the
commencement of negotiations on a Ninth Package of Commitments on Air
Transport Services underneath AFAS, that would serve liberalise a air
transport subordinate services in ASEAN and looked brazen to a timely
conclusion by finish of 2015.
30. Investment regimes in
ASEAN Member States continue to be extended by improvements and
removal of restrictions underneath a ASEAN Comprehensive Investment
Agreement (ACIA), as good as by several other initiatives such as
the persisting Investment Policy Reviews of several AMS conducted by the
OECD. We looked brazen to a full doing in sequence to increase
intra-ASEAN investments and to lift ASEAN’s competitiveness in
attracting investments into a region.
ASEAN Finance Ministers Meeting
31. We welcomed a convening of a First Joint Meeting of a ASEAN
Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, hold in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia on 21 Mar 2015. We serve welcomed a joining to develop
an doing devise for a post-2015 ASEAN financial integration
under a Roadmap for Monetary and Financial Integration of ASEAN
(RIA-fin).
32. We are gratified that a Protocol to
Implement a Sixth Package of Financial Services Liberalisation under
the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services has been sealed by all ASEAN
Finance Ministers. The Protocol contains a enabling sustenance for the
implementation of a ASEAN Banking Integration Framework (ABIF) towards
achieving larger financial and mercantile integration.
33. We remarkable a good swell done in a area of collateral market
integration by a series of initiatives such as a adoption of the
Principles for Product Transparency and Disclosure on Cross-Border Trade
Settlement.
Entrepreneurship
34. Recognising a grant of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
to a mercantile expansion of a region, we looked brazen to the
announcement of a ASEAN Strategic Action Plan for SME Development
(2016-2025), that will concentration on entrance to finance, technology,
enhancing supervision and selling capability. Access to market
information and strengthening microenterprises are vicious in
enhancing SMEs’ competitiveness and resilience.
35.
We recognized a mercantile grant of immature entrepreneurs in the
region and a need to settle a height to inspire networking and
share best practices among them. In this regard, we commended
Malaysia’s efforts in organising a 1ASEAN Entrepreneurship Gathering,
which was a preface to a 1ASEAN Entrepreneurship Summit (1AES) to be
held during a sidelines of a 27th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits, to
be hold in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in Nov 2015, directed at
facilitating people-to-people linkages and compelling economic
development and expansion within ASEAN.
36. We further
welcomed a investiture of inhabitant chapters of a ASEAN Young
Entrepreneurs Association (YEA), designed to inspire a inclusion of
youth in entrepreneurial activities in a region. We looked brazen to
the investiture of identical networks involving women entrepreneurs.
Tourism
37. We welcomed a rising of GOASEAN, an ASEAN-focused travel
channel to inspire ASEAN as a singular tourism finish as good as to
promote intra-ASEAN transport and appreciation of ASEAN enlightenment and
heritage.
Regional Growth Areas
38. We reiterated a significance of sub-regional expansion areas, such as
the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT), a Brunei
Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area
(BIMP-EAGA), a Greater Mekong Sub-Region Economic Co-operation (GMS),
the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Co-operation Strategy (ACMES),
and a Cambodia-Lao-Viet Nam (CLV) Development Triangle, the
Cambodia-Lao-Myanmar-Viet Nam (CLMV) cooperation, and other
Mekong-subregional team-work mechanisms, as vicious building blocks
of a ASEAN Community 2015, and are committed to serve strengthening
strategic and institutional linkages as good as mobilising resources to
improve coordination and overpass a expansion opening among these areas.
ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY
39. We were gratified to adopt a Kuala Lumpur Declaration on a
People-Oriented, People-Centred ASEAN, by that we summarized our
desire to make ASEAN an even some-more effective car in a realisation
of a peoples’ aspirations for good governance, transparency, higher
standards of living, tolerable expansion focusing on meridian change
and ‘the environment, a serve empowerment of women as good as
greater opportunities for all in ASEAN in a post-2015 era.
40. We took note of a views and proposals done by ASEAN Civil
Society Representatives and also of a convening of a ASEAN Civil
Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum and commended their contribution
to a ASEAN Community-building process. We speedy their continued
constructive rendezvous in a routine towards achieving a
people-oriented, people-centred ASEAN Community.
41.
We welcomed a ASEAN Leaders’ Interface with Youth Representatives and
took note of their enterprise for a pacific and stable, economically
resilient, socially and culturally obliged ASEAN Community. In a
region where girl consecrate 65 per cent of a population, ASEAN’s
development plan contingency embody both group and women, and by extension
its youth, if it is to succeed. We urged a girl to embrace
innovation, vicious meditative and problem elucidate skills in sequence to
succeed in a fast changing world.
42. We welcomed
the convening of a Forum for Spouses of ASEAN Heads of
State/Government, hold on 27 Apr 2015 in and with a 26th
ASEAN Summit. The Forum “Empowerment by Social Business” focused on
increasing recognition on amicable business and a expansion in the
alleviation of poverty. We titillate a ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Social
Welfare and Development (AMMSWD) and a ASEAN Economic Ministers
Meeting (AEM) to cruise a recommendations of a Forum and further
develop a judgment of amicable business in achieving a caring and sharing
society within ASEAN.
43. We validated our
commitment to lift team-work to residence a needs and interests as
well as yield equal entrance to opportunities and lift a peculiarity of
life and customary of critical for women, children, a aged and persons
with disabilities. We remarkable with compensation a successful convening
of a Regional Conference on Social Impact of Climate Change on Women
and Children in Cambodia on 25-26 Mar 2015 as partial of a ASEAN
Committee on Women (ACW) Work Plan (2011-2015), and took note of the
ASEAN Regional Workshop on Gender Issues in Climate Change and Its
Adaptation, to be organized in Malaysia in Jun 2015.
44. We voiced a joining to inspire a healthy, active and
productive sourroundings for aged persons in a ASEAN region, so that
the aged might continue to play a critical purpose in their families and in
society. To this end, we welcomed persisting efforts to finalise a Kuala
Lumpur Declaration on Ageing: Empowering Older Persons in ASEAN during the
11th SOMSWD, to be hold in Malaysia in 2015.
45. We
are resolved to pierce ASEAN forward, versed with a aloft turn of
knowledge and skills, to be inculcated by ability building and
knowledge management. ASEAN institutions of aloft preparation should
further lift their purpose in building graduates with a necessary
attributes and competencies, means to minister to a expansion and
well-being of a ASEAN Community in a post-2015 era.
46. We recognize a grant of migrant workers to both the
society and economy of ASEAN and reiterated a significance of formulating a
secure and moneyed ASEAN Community. We stressed a need to improve
the peculiarity of life of a people of ASEAN and to guarantee their human
rights and elemental freedoms including a rights of migrant workers.
We tasked a ASEAN Labour Ministers to continue operative on the
finalization of an ASEAN Instrument on a Protection and Promotion of
the Rights of Migrant Workers.
47. We underlined the
importance of enhancing team-work in disaster supervision and
emergency response to be improved prepared to understanding with healthy disasters
in a region. We welcomed a ASEAN Declaration on Institutionalising
the Resilience of ASEAN and Its Communities and People to Disasters and
Climate Change, that underscores a significance of building an ASEAN
Community that is volatile to disaster and meridian change, viewing
resilience as a unifying, multi-faceted routine and outcome. We were
encouraged by a efforts done by applicable ASEAN bodies by the
ASEAN Joint Task Force on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
(HADR) to titillate synergies between a opposite platforms endangered in
the supervision of HADR to yield for some-more fit outcomes and avoid
duplication of work.
48. We remarkable that transboundary
haze wickedness remained a courtesy in a region. With a ASEAN
Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (AATHP) now carrying been
ratified by all parties, we demeanour brazen to larger informal cooperation
towards solution a emanate in a accordant manner. We remarkable the
initiatives by a Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on
Transboundary Haze Pollution (MSC) countries to take a necessary
actions in sequence to operationalise a ASEAN Sub-Regional Haze
Monitoring System (HMS). In a meantime, we speedy MSC countries to
share information on a Government-to-Government basement on hotspot areas
that means transboundary haze.
49. We remarkable with
great courtesy that meridian change is already carrying poignant impact
in a region, causing critical amicable and mercantile disruptions and damage
throughout a region. We endorsed a joining to residence climate
change during a national, informal and tellurian levels. We called for a
comprehensive 2015 agreement, formed on scholarship and a beliefs of
equity, and common though differentiated responsibilities and respective
capabilities, as good as a graduation of tolerable expansion for
all in line with a UN Post-2015 Development Agenda.
INITIATIVE FOR ASEAN INTEGRATION
50. We recognized that informal formation and squeezing the
development opening are priorities in a ASEAN community-building process
and in this courtesy welcomed a sketch adult of a IAI Work Plan III
(2016-2020) and a post-2015 IAI Agenda. We welcomed closer collaboration
between ASEAN and Mekong sub-regional team-work arrangement to
further strengthen IAI team-work towards achieving estimable economic
development in a region. In this aspect, we speedy AMS to
participate in Phase II of a technical assistance from a World Bank,
which would concentration on a comment during a inhabitant turn of
development gaps within and between AMS that could be serve narrowed.
Noting that IAI is cross-cutting in nature, we also called for closer
collaboration among a several ASEAN sectoral bodies in ensuring full
participation and realization of informal commitments and initiatives.
ASEAN CONNECTIVITY
51. We
welcomed a swell done in a doing of a Master Plan on
ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) in compelling mercantile growth, narrowing
development gaps and contributing to ASEAN formation and
community-building. We stressed a significance of addressing a various
challenges in implementing MPAC initiatives, such as resource
mobilisation as good as coordinating MPAC initiatives that are
multi-sectoral in nature.
52. We emphasised the
importance of ICT connectivity and tasked a Telecommunications and
Information Technology (IT) Ministers to commence initiatives to
improve intra-ASEAN networks and certainty measures, while establishing
platforms to broach and discharge e-services and ASEAN-based content
to a communities in sequence to eventually expostulate e-entrepreneurship and
innovation and inspire ASEAN adults to attend in a Digital
Economy, heading towards unlocking a digital intensity in ASEAN,
creating ASEAN Smart Communities and a safer ASEAN cyberspace.
53. We welcomed a persisting efforts by a ASEAN Connectivity
Coordinating Committee (ACCC) to delineate a post-2015 Connectivity
agenda, that should be bold, idealist and enclose petrify and
feasible measures that will minister to a better-connected ASEAN
region.
ASEAN EXTERNAL RELATIONS
54. We voiced compensation with a expansion of ASEAN’s
relations with a outmost partners and demeanour brazen to further
cooperation for a mutual advantage of ASEAN and a partners. We also
expressed a appreciation for their continued support for ASEAN’s
Community-building efforts and for initiatives that minister to the
peace and fortitude of a region.
55. We reiterated
ASEAN’s executive purpose in moulding a elaborating informal design and
reaffirmed a joining to serve lift and strengthen our
partnerships by several ASEAN-led mechanisms, including a ASEAN
Plus One and Plus Three Mechanisms, a East Asia Summit and a ASEAN
Regional Forum.
56. We looked brazen to the
conclusion of a Upgrading of a ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement
(ACFTA) and a signing of a Protocol to incorporate a Trade in
Services and Investment Chapters underneath a ASEAN Japan Comprehensive
Economic Partnership (AJCEP) Agreement. We also remarkable a good progress
of a ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (AHKFTA) negotiations.
Timor-Leste
57. We welcomed a swell done by a ASEAN Coordinating Council
Working Group (ACCWG) in deliberating a ASEAN Membership Application
by Timor-Leste and exploring a ASEAN activities that Timor-Leste could
participate in. We are committed to yield assistance for
Timor-Leste’s ability building routine and looked brazen to the
outcome of a 3 eccentric studies on ASEAN Membership Application
by Timor Leste and a implications on a APSC, AEC and ASCC building
process, as mandated to a ACCWG Sub-Working Group.
Strengthening of a East Asia Summit
58. We concurred a need to continue efforts to emanate robust
mechanisms to residence issues associated to deepening informal integration
and progressing peace, fortitude and wealth in a region. We
recognised that these mechanisms contingency aim during compelling critical trust
through discourse and pure poise as good as confluence to rules
and norms ordinarily concluded to. We serve concurred a need to
promote effectiveness, synergies and minimise duplication in ASEAN-led
mechanisms. In this regard, we called for a strengthening of existing
mechanisms, including a East Asia Summit.
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
South China Sea
59. We share a vicious concerns voiced by some Leaders on the
land reclamation being undertaken in a South China Sea, that has
eroded trust and certainty and might criticise peace, certainty and
stability in a South China Sea.
60. In this
regard, we educated a Foreign Ministers to urgently residence this
matter constructively including underneath a several ASEAN frameworks such
as ASEAN-China relations, as good as a element of peaceful
co-existence.
61. We validated a significance of
maintaining peace, stability, certainty and leisure of navigation in and
over-flight over a South China Sea. We emphasised a need for all
parties to safeguard a full and effective doing of the
Declaration on a Conduct of Parties in a South China Sea in its
entirety: to build, say and lift mutual trust and confidence;
exercising reserve in a control of activities; to not to resort
to hazard or use of force; and for a parties endangered to resolve
their differences and disputes by pacific means, in accordance
with general law including a 1982 United Nations Convention on
the Law of a Sea.
62. While observant a progress
made in a consultations on a Code of Conduct in a South China Sea
(COC), we urged that consultations be intensified, to safeguard the
expeditious investiture of an effective COC.
Middle East
63. We reiterated ASEAN’s support for a legitimate right of the
Palestinian people for an eccentric state of Palestine and a two-state
solution where Palestine and Israel live corresponding in peace. We
expressed courtesy during a ostensible desertion of a two-State solution
as good as a countenance of courtesy during Arab Israelis sportive their
right of concept voting during a new elections in Israel and
called on Israel and Palestine to constructively rivet in peace
negotiations. We reiterated a call for all parties to make every
effort to mislay obstacles associated thereto, in sold the
construction of bootleg settlements in a assigned Palestinian
Territories, in sequence to strech a final standing agreement.
64. We voiced courtesy during a deteriorating conditions in Yemen,
resulting in deaths, drop and vast scale banishment of people,
compelling us to leave hundreds of ASEAN Nationals from a country.
We voiced support for a United Nations Security Council Resolution
2216 on a Situation in a Middle East (Yemen) and called on all
parties to practice restraint, solve their differences through
peaceful discourse and lapse to a country’s roadmap for an inclusive
democratic transition. We urged all parties to foster a delivery
of charitable assistance as good as a insurance and depletion of
civilians.
International Economic Slowdown
65. We concurred a significance of deeper, faster and better
integration to lessen a effects of uncertainties in a global
economy, by ASEAN apropos some-more competitive, inspire serve FDI
inflows and eventually advantage a peoples. We concurred that falling
oil prices could impact trade gain and supervision income for net
oil-exporting economies in ASEAN and a risk acted by currency
volatility, including probable collateral upsurge reversals.
66. We concurred a continued resilience of ASEAN economies amidst
the hurdles in a tellurian economy. We note that, notwithstanding net
oil exporting economies, a disappearing oil prices have an overall
positive impact on a region’s mercantile growth. We are however mindful
of outmost factors that could adversely impact a economies. We are
confident a continued adoption of suitable process mix, the
realisation of AEC and together with a continued concentration on
infrastructure expansion to titillate connectivity will assistance sustain
economic growth, say informal financial fortitude and enhance
ASEAN’s competitiveness.
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
67. We welcomed a swell done in negotiations for a Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and urged all parties to
intensify efforts with a aim of final negotiations by end-2015.
Given RCEP’s intensity to serve confederate ASEAN into a global
economy and defend ASEAN centrality, we tasked a Economic Ministers to
identify approaches that are pragmatic, credible, and excusable to
all parties, holding into care a opposite levels of
development among ASEAN Member States, and additional coherence for
the slightest grown ASEAN Member States.
G20
68. We voiced appreciation to Turkey for mouth-watering ASEAN
participation during a G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey in Nov 2015 as
well as associated G20 meetings via a year. ASEAN’s continued
participation in a G20 is an confirmation of a purpose as a
constructive and successful informal organisation. We will continue to
provide constructive submit and prominence ASEAN’s views and perspectives
concerning a general financial infrastructure.
UNSC
69. We welcomed Malaysia’s non-permanent membership on a United
Nations Security Council for a tenure 2015-2016 and voiced support
for ASEAN’s destiny candidatures to a United Nations Security Council.
This is in line with a common prophesy for ASEAN to coordinate movement on
various tellurian issues of common seductiveness and concern, heading to ASEAN
becoming a tellurian player.-VNA
Article source: http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Chairmans-Statement-of-26th-ASEAN-Summit-issued/20154/64890.vnplus