TOKYO, Feb 8 Kyodo fix uponed ed...

TOKYO, Feb 8 Kyodo

fix uponed editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press:

WHAT CAN ASEAN DO IN coming events CONFLICTS? (The Nation, Bangkok)

The silence of the regional grouping ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) above the Cambodian incident calls into question its exceedingly purpose.

Even granting two of its members were nearly at war, ASEAN was incapable of speech throughout. The burning of the Thai embassy and destruction of Thai business establishments in Phnom Penh was a serious matter into which the grouping destitutions to take a closer look

if it be not that certainly the usual answer would be that ASEAN relate tos the principle of noninterference. to such a degree bilateral issues between the members are not the grouping's business...

The grouping has prided itself that since its creation in 1967 its members have not ever gone to war. But in this case, the incident could have far-reaching implications for the two Cambodia and Thailand as well as the that will be of ASEAN.

For proper reasons, ASEAN exists to promote the grouping's interest and to set forth the region in the global arena. Therefore, bilateral issues have been kept strictly bilateral.

Given the sea changes in international relations after the tribe 11 (2001) attacks, of the like kind a consideration is no longer valid...The attacks onward the U.S. have now exhibited into a full-blown antiterrorism campaign from first to last the world. No country has taken it for granted, including ASEAN.

What ASEAN has failed to realize is the issue that the Thai-Cambodia conflict could have forward the ASEAN organization itself, especially when it cause to deviateed violent...

As the fresh events show, ASEAN remained a brick -- no answer There must (be) other preventive measures.

China was the merely country in Asia that rejoined to the Thai-Cambodian crisis, rendering the image that simply China cared. If ASEAN members could not ask advice of each other when they were almost at war, what is the drift of ASEAN? Just for a tee-off away from dwelling or to practice karaoke...?

(Feb 8)

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