41st asean ministerial meeting
At the opening ceremony of the 41st ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM), Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, as current chair of ASEAN, said that two events during Singapore’s chairmanship stood out, one was ASEAN’s response after Cyclone Nargis struck Southern Myanmar in May and the other was the signing of the ASEAN Charter last NovemberThe Representatives of Timor-Leste and Papua
New Guinea attended the Opening Ceremony of the 41th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting as Guest of the Chairman of the 40th ASEAN Standing Committee and as Special Observer in ASEAN, respectively. To achieve that objective, President Arroyo urged ASEAN to build upon its bold decisionWe agreed in a Joint Statement issued on 30 July 2007 to recommend to our Leaders the endorsement of the proposal to observe ASEAN Day (8 August) as a special day in each of the ASEAN Member Countries with the objective of increasing ASEAN awareness among our people.