ASEAN bid to build EU-style bloc amid crisis
China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-16 08:00
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ASEAN foreign ministers hold hands during the opening ceremony of Special ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting at ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. AP |
Southeast Asian foreign ministers met yesterday to implement a charter setting up a bloc of half a billion people, but hopes of building a European Union-style community may be blown off course by the global economic crisis.
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