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Regional co-op focus of ASEAN meeting
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-28 05:51
In a chairman's statement at the end of the Sixth ASEAN+3 Foreign Ministers
Meeting yesterday, the ministers said they hoped the concerned parties would
find solutions acceptable to all sides to secure a nuclear-weapon-free Korean
Peninsula.
The ministers also expressed their joint concern over the continued violence
in Iraq and condemned recent terrorist attacks, including those in London and
Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt.
They welcomed the recent positive developments in the Middle East and
recognized the need to implement the Roadmap and the relevant UN Resolutions to
realize peace in the region.
Support for UN reform was also offered by the meeting, which agreed reform
should be comprehensive and consider the needs of developing countries.
They attached importance to effective leadership of the United Nations to
address the needs and aspirations of people in the developing world.
Ministers said they believed it would be the turn of an
Asian representative to next hold the UN secretary-general post, which will
become vacant upon expiry of the term of the current secretary-general, Kofi
Annan, at the end of 2006. The ASEAN foreign ministers informed China, Japan and
the ROK of ASEAN's strong support for Thai candidate, Surakiart Sathirathai, for
the post.
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