45th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting kicks off

9 July 2012
Xinhua News
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The 45th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM) kicked off in Phnom Penh on Monday, focusing on politics, security, food and energy security, economics and culture in order to further advance the bloc’s cooperation toward a community by 2015. … Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen said that…after 45 years, ASEAN has become a closely-integrated political and economic entity, “an influential player in Asia and an indispensable strategic partner of major countries and organizations in the world.”… However, despite the achievements, ASEAN still continues to face challenges both globally and regionally such as the fragility of the economic recovery of developed countries, coupled with prolonged severe debt crisis in Europe…

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