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THE MINISTERS WELCOMED POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS SINCE
THEIR LAST MEETING IN JAKARTA IN OCTOBER 1986, IN PARTICULAR PROGRESS IN INTEGRATING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY MANIFEST IN THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT, THE IMPRESSIVE CONFIRMATION OF ASEAN SOLIDARITY AT THE MANILA SUMMIT IN DECEMBER 1987 AND ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENTS IN WORLD POLITICS AS REFLECTED BY THE CONCLUSION OF THE INF TREATY. AT THE SAME TIME, THE MINISTERS EXPRESSED THEIR REGRET THAT REGIONAL CONFLICTS HAD NOT YET BEEN RESOLVED. 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.
THE MINISTERS WERE SATISFIED TO NOTE THAT THE ECONOMIES OF THE EC AND ASEAN HAVE AGAIN SHOWN UPWARD TRENDS DESPITE DIFFICULT GLOBAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. THE MINISTERS EXPRESSED THEIR GREAT INTEREST IN EVEN STRONGER ECONOMIC COOPERATION 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.
3. REGIONAL COOPERATION
THE EC MINISTERS INFORMED THE ASEAN MINISTERS ABOUT THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT, WHICH ENTERED INTO FORCE ON 1 JULY 1987, AND WHICH IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE WILL OF THE EC MEMBER STATES TO CONTINUE THE WORK TO TRANSFORM RELATIONS AS A WHOLE AMONG THEMSELVES INTO A EUROPEAN UNION.
THE ASEAN MINISTERS INFORMED THEIR EUROPEAN COUNTERPARTS 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 THE EXISTENCE AND ON THE PROGRESS IT HAD MADE THROUGH CLOSE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION. THE MINISTERS NOTED THAT ASEAN HAD EVOLVED INTO AN AREA OF PEACE AMONG ITS MEMBERS AND OF GROWING STABILITY AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS.
NOW THAT THE EC IS WELL ON ITS WAY TOWARDS THE COMPLETION OF AN INTERNAL MARKET OF 320 MILLION AND IN THE PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING AN EVER-CLOSER UNION AMONG THE
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