Asean Quotes

We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation. - Hassanal Bolkiah

We will consider seriously what contribution we can make to the ASEAN Development Fund. - Nobutaka Machimura

We want to deepen relations with the ASEAN countries. - Junichiro Koizumi

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this caseand we're in the process of reviewing various options. There are various options in light of the order, and it's still too early to predict what the ultimate outcome would be. - Craig Berman

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN. - Sellapan Ramanathan

We expect that this new investment by Ford will take the Philippine automotive industry to its next level of development by establishing its leadership in the Flexible Fuel technology in the region. Flexible Fuel technology is part of Ford's global vision on innovation, and with this investment Ford intends to build the Philippines as its ASEAN Center of Excellence in Flexible Fuel Technology. - Peter Daniel

We believe that when the Philippines begin coordinating the Russian- ASEAN dialogue in July 2006... Russia will play a more active role in creative processes in Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. - Mikhail Kamynin

We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand. - Marty Natalegawa

We are all concerned equally about the image of ASEAN as an effect of this haze and (the Indonesian environment minister) understands it also, that's why he was prepared to take the offer of support from Singapore, Malaysia and the other countries. - Yaacob Ibrahim

This is the first such ASEAN-level exercise after the ASEAN agreement. - Nadzrin Siron