36 rokov od vzniku ASEAN, úspechy a prekážky
THIRTY-SIX YEARS OF EXISTENCE OF ASEAN: PERFORMANCE AND CHALLENGES

Summary/Abstract: This paper provide not only an information about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but also examines the performances and challenges witch it has faced by its existence. The founders of the ASEAN were only five countries namely: Indone-sia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand and signed the ASEAN Declara-tion of 8 August 1967. Thirty-two years later, on 30 April 1999, ASEAN encompassed all ten countries of Southeast Asia by admitting Cambodia. (Brunei Darussalam had been admitted in 1984, Viet Nam in 1995, and Laos and Myanmar in 1997). A stated goal of the Bangkok Declaration and many of the succeeding ASEAN pro-nouncements was to accelerate economic growth...through joint endeavours and to pro-mote active collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest in the field of economics; little concrete action was taken to promote economic cooperation. In fact, until 1977, regional Economic Ministers failed to meet on a regular basis; ASEAN had rotated around the annual meeting of its Foreign Ministers. Yet, despite the neglect, the ASEAN economies have all prospered.

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