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ASEAN Summit Opens in Thailand
Date: 2/28/2009 8:26:32 AM Sender: VOA News
ASEAN Summit Opens in Thailand  
By VOA News
28 February 2009

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ASEAN leaders join in a traditional handshake during opening ceremonies in Hua Hin, Thailand, of the 14th ASEAN Summit

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations opened its annual summit Saturday in the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin.

Host Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva opened the ASEAN summit by expressing confidence in the group＇s ability to weather the global financial crisis.

The Thai leader said Southeast Asia had made it through both the Cold War and the 1997 Asian financial crisis by acting together. He said their response to the current global crisis would be no different.

Before the start of the summit, leaders from the 10 member countries held meetings to discuss challenges in the region.

They signed various technical agreements on economic and trade cooperation including a landmark free trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand that could add tens of billions of dollars to their economies.

ASEAN was formed in 1967 as an anti-Communist alliance during the Cold War.

Its members now include the communist governments of Vietnam and Laos and military-run Burma, a pariah state that overthrew a democratically-elected government.

The other members are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.

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