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THE CONCLUSION OF THE INF TREATY. AT THE SAME TIME, THE MI- NISTERS EKSPRESSED THEIR REGRET THAT THE CAMBODI AND AFGHA- NISTAN CONFLICTS HAD NOT YET BEEN RESOLVED TO BE UPDATED THEY REAFFIRMED THEIR DETERMINATION TO JOIN THEIR EFFORTS IN ORDER TO ASSIST IN THE RESTORATION OF PEACE IN THE REGIONS OF TENSION TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY.
COOPERA-
THE MINISTERS WERE SATISFIED TO NOTE THAT THE ECONOMIES
UPWARD TRENDS DESPITE OF THE EC AND ASEAN HAD AGAIN SHOWN DIFFICULT GLOBAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. THE MINISTERS EKSPRES- SED THEIR GREAT INTEREST IN EVEN STRONGER ECONOMIC TION OF BOTH REGIONS AND WELCOMED IN THIS CONNECTION THE FACT THAT JOINT EC-ASEAN INVESTMENT COMMITTEES HAVE BEEN FOUNDED IN ALL ASEAN CAPITALS SINCE THEIR LAST MEETING.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS
3. REGIONAL CO-OPERATION
THAT
THE EC MINISTERS EKSPLAINED TO THE ASEAN MINISTERS THE ENTRY INTO FORCE ON 1 JULY 1987 OF THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT WAS AN IMPORTANT STEP ON THE ROAD TOWARDS EUEROPEAN IN PARTICULAR TO A GENUINE COMMON MARKET AND A EUROPEAN
POLICY.
UNION, FOREIGN
THE ASEAN MINISTERS INFORMED THEIR EUROPEAN COUNTER- PARTS ABOUT THE ASEAN SUMMIT MEETING OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT WHICH TOOK PLACE IN MANILA ON 14-15 DECEMBER 1987. THE EC MINISTERS CONGRATULATED THE ASEAN COMMUNITY ON THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS EKSISTENCE AND ON THE PROGRESS IT HAD MADE THROUGH CLOSE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION. THE MINISTERS NOTED THAT ASEAN HAD EVOLVED INTO AN AREA OF PEACE AMONG ITS MEMBERS AND GROWING STABILITY AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS.
OF ESTABLISHING AN
NOW THAT THE EC IS WELL ON ITS WAY TOWARDS THE COMPLET- ION OF AN INTERNAL MARKET OF 320 MILLION AND IN THE PROCESS
EVER-CLOSER UNION BETWEEN MEMBER STATES AND THAT THE ASEAN SUMMIT IN MANILA HAS ADOPTED AN IMPORTANT
IT HAS BECOME PARTICULARLY PROGRAMME FOR FURTHER ACTION,
EVIDENT THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EC-ASEAN RELATIONS WAS BOTH FORESIGHTED AND ADVANTAGEOUS FOR ALL PARTNERS.
4. EAST-WEST RELATIONS
THE MINISTERS DISCUSSED EAST-WEST RELATIONS. THEY NO- TED WITH SATISFACTION SIGNS OF RELAKSATION OF TENSION (DE-
THEY VOICED THEIR EKSPEC- TENTE) IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.
EFFECT ON
TATION THAT THESE SIGNS SHOULD HAVE A POSITIVE THE SOLUTION OF REGIONAL CONFLICTS AS PARTICULARLY AFGHA-
THE MINISTERS EKSPRESSED NISTAN AND CAMBODIA TO BE UPDATED. THEIR READINESS TO ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO SUCH SOLUTIONS.
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