Panelists in the most difficult position of any panel in any event which is standing between resistance and the bar. But there is extraordinary substance on this panel, and the intent is to turn us forwardlooking. I would like to turn over to ambassador john ordway, our partner in kazakhstan. John, it is an honor and a pleasure to have you here as our moderator. Amb. Ordway thank you very much. We are facing the future with an urgent set of problems and to prove they are urgent we are going to have a little time to deal with them. Let me just say i really liked from the beginning what bill perry said about the challenge of this separation of the variables and what we are going to do with this panel is separate those variables and address them separately. I would like to recall what the general said that he is optimistic, and the time to renew the work we have been talking about is not somewhere over the hills. There is it is not over the hills, but i expect there is still a lot of terr
President Mohammed Shahabuddin today joined the opening session of the 43rd Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the Plenary Hall of Jakarta Convention Center (JCC)
More than two years after Myanmar s military junta overthrew the government, unity in the ASEAN bloc is being questioned – Myanmar remains barred from attending summits and Thailand seems to be ready