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OF 061015Z JULY 88
INFO PRIORITY BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, JAKARTN
INFO PRIORITY KUALA LUMPUR, SINGAPORE, MANILA
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TWENTY-FIRST ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING
BANGKOK:
4-5 JULY 1988
SUMMARY
1.
AN UNREMARKABLE ANNUAL MINISTERIAL MEETING (AMM) OF WHICH THE HIGHLIGHTS WERE SUPPORT FOR THE FORTHCOMING JAKARTA INFORMAL MEETING ON CAMBODIA THE PROPOSAL FOR A UN-SPONSORED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDOCHINESE REFUGEES AND A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO THE PHILIPPINES. PRONOUNCEMENTS ON OTHER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES WERE ANODYNE AND IN FAMILIAR TERMS. DISCUSSIONS WITH DIALOGUE PARTNERS WILL OCCUPY THE REST OF THE WEEK. WE WILL REPORT FURTHER AS NECESSARY.
DETAIL
2. THE TWENTY-FIRST AMM, WHICH CONCLUDED YESTERDAY, WAS ATTENDED BY ASEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS AND OPENED BY THE THAI PRIME MINISTER. THE MEETING ISSUED FOUR DOCUMENTS: A JOINT COMMUNIQUE, JOINT STATEMENTS ON THE JAKARTA INFORMAL MEETING AND ON INDO- CHINESE REFUGEES, AND A DECLARATION ON THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN. THE WIDE-RANGING JOINT COMMUNIQUE (COPIES BY BAG
TO SEAD, ASEAN POSTS AND HANOI) COVERED CAMBODIA, THE JIM, INDOCHINESE REFUGEES, ZOPFAN ND SEANW FZ, AID FOR THE PHILIPPINES, DRUGS, INTRA-ASEAN COOPERATION, COOPERATION WITH DIALOGUE PARTNERS, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ISSUES AND SOME INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL
ISSUES.
3.
THE TWIN FOCUS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST AMM WAS CAMBODIA AND THE INDOCHINESE REFUGEE SITUATION. WE ARE REPORTING SEPARATELY ON
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