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INTEREST IN EVEN STRONGER ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO REGIONAL GROUPINGS 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 EUROPEAN ACT, WHICH ENTERED INTO FORCE ON 1 JULY 1987
SINGLE 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 MEETING OF ASEAN HEADS OF GOVERNMENT WHICH TOOK PLACE IN MANILA ON 14-15 DECEMBER 1987. THE EC MINISTERS CONGRATULATED ASEAN ON THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDING AND ON THE
THE MINISTERS PROGRESS IT HAD MADE THROUGH CLOSE COOPERATION. NOTED THAT ASEAN HAD EVOLVED INTO AN AREA OF PEACE AMONG ITS MEMBERS AND OF GROWING STABILITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS. 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 PEOPLES OF EUROPE AND THAT THE HAS ADOPTED AN MEETING OF ASEAN HEADS OF GOVERNMENT IN MANILA IMPORTANT PROGRAMME OF ACTION, IT HAS BECOME PARTICULARLY EVIDENT THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EC/ASEAN RELATIONS WAS BOTH FORESIGHTED AND ADVANTAGEOUS FOR ALL PARTNERS.
THE MINISTERS WERE ENCOURAGED BY THE POSITIVE RESULTS OF CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN THE EC AND ASEAN SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE ASEAN/EC MINISTERIAL MEETING IN 1978. THE MINISTERS REAFFIRMED THE DESIRABILITY IN THE FUTURE OF HAVING PERIODIC CONSULTATIONS ON ISSUES OF MUTUAL INTEREST, WHICH WOULD CONTRIBUTE FURTHER TO THE STRENGTHENING OF THE EXISTING COOPERATIVE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO REGIONAL GROUPINGS.
4. CULTURAL RELATIONS
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THE MINISTERS AGREED TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN EC/ASEAN CULTURAL TIES. IN THIS CONTEXT EMPHASIS SHOULD BE GIVEN BOTH TO THE COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCES IN GENERAL.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ISSUES
5. EAST/WEST RELATIONS
THE MINISTERS DISCUSSED EAST/WEST RELATIONS.
THEY NOTED WITH
THEY EFFECT
SATISFACTION SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT IN EAST/WEST RELATIONS. VOICED THEIR EXPECTATION THAT THIS SHOULD HAVE A POSITIVE ON THE SOLUTION OF REGIONAL CONFLICTS. THE MINISTERS EXPRESSED THEIR READINESS TO ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO SUCH SOLUTIONS.
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