Sentence examples for an asean from inspiring English sources

It is an ASEAN issue and has to be resolved by ASEAN".

"Asean as a bloc has to look at this problem as an Asean problem," he said.

Some have already proposed an Asean plus 8. "The U.S. and China rivalry will play out in Asean," said the organization's secretary general, Surin Pitsuwan.

Discretion is always the better part of an ASEAN communiqué.

SOUTH-EAST Asian leaders and Barack Obama gather on Bali today to begin an ASEAN summit.

But, with Myanmar included, this may be too difficult politically, and an Asean sub-grouping may be more realistic.

However, we believe that ASEAN has potential to formalize some of these actions within an ASEAN-wide framework – these could first be designed as multilateral ASEAN-wide MRAs, before consideration of whether to implement legal frameworks, for example, for a basic package of emergency health services that countries are obliged to provide for short-term ASEAN travelers.

But the United States has resisted an ASEAN-wide free trade area based on relatively weak rules acceptable to all ASEAN members.

The previous secretary of defence, Robert Gates, supplemented that routine in coming to Vietnam for an ASEAN-sponsored summit of defence ministers in 2010.Certainly Vietnam is suspicious of China, and has been for centuries, if not millennia.

If these figures were abstracted out for Asia, and China was adopted as the benchmark when considering relocation to an ASEAN-5 economy, it would appear that Vietnam is now closely behind China, with both Malaysia and Thailand also moving seemingly well out in front (Fig. 3).

Each country must have a clear policy – perhaps an ASEAN-wide policy – that defines adequate healthcare coverage and benefit packages for migrant workers.