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President Barack Obama, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will attend the 21st Asean Summit and related summits in Cambodia on Nov. 15-20, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said on Monday.
Hor Namhong made the announcement after a meeting with visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa.
Asean has a wide range of sensitive issues on its agenda, including economic integration of the region, ongoing maritime disputes in the South China Sea, human rights issues and other potentially divisive issues that threaten its effectiveness as an integrate block of countries.
An analysis of Asean’s problems by Murray Hunter on the New Mandala website on Oct. 3 said, “Currently there is an absence of any leader with regional vision within Asean.”
“The leaders of the region don’t appear to have the relationships like their predecessors once had, as emerging democracies and development have their own demands. The club of dictators has gone. Even the pro-Asean Secretary-General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan who kept the integration momentum going is preparing to hand over the position to a less experienced diplomat from one of the less developed members, potentially leading to a further vacuum in leadership on the issue,” he said.
Hunter said the constituency that one would expect to support an integrated Asean economy, regional conglomerates, appears to still be lukewarm to the concept.
“Although companies like Air Asia, CIMB Bank, Bangkok Bank, SingTel, and Siam Cement are taking advantage of the region as a market, they are the exception. The majority of Asean conglomerates are ethnic Chinese who settled across the region building up their empires along common models of trading, real estate, finance and insurance, retail, and banking activities," he said.
“These firms are well connected in their own countries and haven’t historically done well business wise in countries within the region where their connections are weak. Consequently these firms prefer to diversify business interests within their home country rather than expand across the region."
“The region is way behind schedule in the implementation of the Asean Economic Community. Many unresolved issues concerning agriculture and non-tariff barriers are yet to be resolved. The less developed countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam are also holding back progress," he said. “If the Asean region fails to create an effective and integrated common market in 2015 which is truly competitive, with free flow of skills, and capital, Asean will be severely disadvantaged vis-a-vis China, the US, Japan, and the EU, at a delicate time when the current détente is in flux and transformation.”
Questions about Asean’s unity emerged in media reports after the group failed to issue a Joint Communique after this year’s Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting, following divisive behind the scenes negotiations over the South China Sea maritime dispute involving control over oil and gas energy deposits.
Founded in 1967, Asean includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, plus observer countries.
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This confirmation made Mu Sochua looks like a fool and arrogant mouthpiece of certain self serving group.
She does not understand US foreign policy and strategic diplomacy that is necessary for US to counterplay China over reach.
I said it before, MU Sochua was reinstated immunity as MP because of US intervention and she should not press her luck in being a foreign passport holder.
It seems ridiculous as she campaigns hard in abroad to win former refugtees emotion for the election in Cambodia in 2013. Her tactic is obviously, exploit refugees again the same as Sihanouk, and the rest.
SHAME ON HER!!! :P
Hey Yuon/Vietnam Dog Eater @6:56 PM, there is nothing to happen right away since the U.S. Officials have been so busy. It takes time to get involve.
You enjoy seeing the victims suffering more and more and you enjoy the success of the killers, thieves, corrupted CPP officials under the Yuon/Vietnamese masters who currently control dumb Yuon/Vietnamese dog/slave Hun Sen.
You are still thinking like the worst wild animal and you are not a human. You think like evil master-minded killers/monsters in Hanoi and evil Ho Chi Minh. Do you agree that you are such the worst wild animal?
8:00PM,
It shows you are half baked and had no stomach for truth. Everyone said something your Mama MU Sochua,you labeled that individual as Yuon or dog eater. You don't know yourself is one of the dogs of your Mama Mu.
Critic is not your threat but Hun Sen and CPP is. Stop barking at the wrong tree.
Do you think US gave a damn for what your Mama said.
Try again,please.Nothing is personal here,but you seemed too unstable in conversation.
11:55 PM, Dumb Yuon/Vietnamese dog Eater, you are one of the CPP criminals who blame on Mu Sochua because she is not a quitter no matter what.
You always support corrupted CPP regime and illegal CPP land grabbers and environment destroyers.
Yes, you are still barking. We are not barking the wrong tree. You are the one who making no sense. If you are Khmer/Cambodian, then don't blame on Ms. Mu Sochua because she has been doing the right things. For you, no, you have done the wrong things to let the CPP murders roam free, allow the land stealers to roam free, etc.
So, what is wrong with you, Dumb Yuon Dog Eater who support CPP and is against the opposition parties?
5:11 AM, it seems to me that your leaders have no one support at home, now they're trying and begging for support from dump asses refugee like you. Do me a fever go and plunge your brain dead with bleach and eat Mama Mu shit before barking. Your ScamSR should be in jail with Mr.Mam Sonando. Thy both can be very nice gay partner. Pi Anh.
Hey Dumb Yuon Dog Eater Pi Anh @6:17 AM,
You are one of the wealth opportunists (thieves robbing everything from the poor and unarmed Khmer people who are innocent). You are the most evil Yuon Dog Eater in Cambodia become Khmer.
No, we are not Refugee, but we are here in Cambodia. If we see and located you, you will be shot into the head to death one of these days. Your IP address will be located anywhere you sit and post the comments.
Dumb/Vietnamese Dog Eater called Pi Anh (English translates "From Me"). How stupid is that you called yourself Pi Anh who is a real Yuon/Vietnamese thief and a Yuon/Vietnamese predator.
When will you stop eating dog, stupid Yuon/Vietnamese dog eater called Pi Anh?
6:43 AM, Why are there so many dumb khmers like you still alive, Dump khmer like you can't vote in Cambodia anyway, so your Mama Mu wasted her times and enery for nothing. By the way who is your stupid opposition leader? ScamSr a fugitive? or a crook wrong party leader Soka? Long live Hun Sen, go eat your wife shit now B i t c h brainless shit!!!! Pi Anh.
Hey You Dumb Yuon Dog Eater Pi Anh @6:17 AM - You are way too much like Wild Animal innocent dogs and you are still too stubborn and act too criminal and never learned to be reasonable. You talked like gangsters and no one ever lives in peace like you, Dumb Yuon Dog Eater called Pi Anh. That is why the people around the world and Khmer people want you to be dead by now. You are so cruel and talk the way you are, low class uneducated Yuon/Vietnam dog eater.
So, stop being so criminal and cruel!!!
Hey You Dumb Yuon Dog Eater Pi Anh @6:17 AM - You are way too much like Wild Animal who eats innocent dogs and you are still too stubborn and act too criminal and never learned to be reasonable. You talked like gangsters and no one ever lives in peace like you, Dumb Yuon Dog Eater called Pi Anh. That is why the people around the world and Khmer people want you to be dead by now. You are so cruel and talk the way you are, low class uneducated Yuon/Vietnam dog eater.
So, stop being so criminal and cruel!!!
7:07 AM. your paranoid Youn crab will never work in the 21th century. We don't need your dump fuck khmer to work in our goverments now, so just stay put and keep on licking your Mama Mu' shit. Tell me one new agenda about your new fake created party? is it still more of the same blaming, painting, and pointing finger at Youn repeatedly? Go take some more drugs you psychopath. Khmer in Cambodia now aday smarter than you dumb refugees living in a shit hole. They never vote for a fugitve leader like your. Pi Anh.
Hey Dumb Yuon Dog Eater Pi Anh @7:25 AM,
How much long will you claim to be the evil bastard of the corrupted evil CPP? You are the most destructive animal like the wild animals in CPP hell. One day, you will be sorry, CPP thief called yourself Pi Anh. How dare you? You will be in hell soon.
Stop being so ridiculous, Dumb Yuon Dog Eaters called yourself Pi Anh.
Where are the money coming from in your pocket? You, dumb Yuon Dog Eater as a CPP thief who stole from the Khmer people. Yes, I am successful with high education, not like you Dumb Yuon Dog Eater who likes to steal from people of Cambodia to fulfill your stinky mouth. I am afraid to destroy you any time and demand you to give everything back to the poor, Dumb Yuon Dog Eater.
Hey Dumb Yuon Dog Eater Pi Anh @7:25 AM,
How much long will you claim to be the evil bastard of the corrupted evil CPP? You are the most destructive animal like the wild animals in CPP hell. One day, you will be sorry, CPP thief called yourself Pi Anh. How dare you? You will be in hell soon.
Stop being so ridiculous, Dumb Yuon Dog Eaters called yourself Pi Anh.
Where are the money coming from in your pocket? You, dumb Yuon Dog Eater as a CPP thief who stole from the Khmer people. Yes, I am successful with high education, not like you Dumb Yuon Dog Eater who likes to steal from people of Cambodia to fulfill your stinky mouth. I am NOT afraid to destroy you any time and demand you to give everything THAT YOU STOLE FROM THE POOR KHMER PEOPLE back to the poor AND BACK THE KHMER NATION, Dumb Yuon Dog Eater.
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