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The Importance of the EC for South-East Asia: the ASEAN Perspective

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The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of ASEAN perceptions concerning the importance of the EC to ASEAN. It is not intended to provide details of every topic to be discussed separately in the agenda of this Conference. Its contents are largely drawn from official ASEAN sources, thus reflecting to a certain extent the views of ASEAN officials and policymakers.

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  1. Statement by Hans-Dietrich Genscher, President of the EC Council at the first ASEAN-EC Ministerial Meeting (AEMM), Brussels, 21 November 1978.

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  2. Joint Declaration of the First AEMM, Brussels.

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  3. ASEAN-EC Joint Statement on Political Issues, Kuala Lumpur, 8 March 1980.

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  4. See Joint Declaration of the Sixth AEMM, Jakarta, 21 October 1986.

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  5. Statement by Sir Geoffrey Howe, President of the EC Council, at the Sixth AEMM, Jakarta.

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  6. EC Statistics as quoted in ASEAN Secretariat Paper, Overview of ASEAN-EC Economic Relations, Jakarta, 1985.

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  7. Quoted from EEC, The European Community and ASEAN, Brussels, 1985.

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  9. Ibid.

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  10. Statement by Mr. Claude Cheysson at the Sixth AEMM, Jakarta.

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  11. ASEAN-EC Cooperation Agreement, Kuala Lumpur, 7 March 1980.

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  23. On Science and Technology see ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Cooperation in Science and Technology, Jakarta, 1985; Joint Communiqués of the First and Second Meetings of the ASEAN Ministers on Science and Technology, Pattaya, October 1980 and Jakarta, November 1983, re-spectively.

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Wannamethee, P. (1997). The Importance of the EC for South-East Asia: the ASEAN Perspective. In: Schiavone, G. (eds) Western Europe and South-East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10262-4_2

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