Indeed, beyond its own sub-region, anchored by a strong ASEAN Community we are set to achieve by 2015, ASEAN continues to be the driving force in promoting an Asia-Pacific wide regional architecture which is conducive for the maintenance regional peaJakarta (ANTARA News) - As ASEAN Chairman, Indonesia has worked ceaselessly to develop the region`s capacity to prevent and manage potential conflicts and to resolve them, Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa said.
"Our efforts have been focused not only in the further development of ASEAN`s conflict prevention and resolution mechanisms, rather also in developing and nurturing the necessary comfort level among ASEAN member states to resort to them," Marty said at the general debate of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday, September 26, 2011.
On the occasion Marty said Southeast Asia would remain as a net contributor to international peace and security, and to economic development and prosperity.
"Indeed, beyond its own sub-region, anchored by a strong ASEAN Community we are set to achieve by 2015, ASEAN continues to be the driving force in promoting an Asia-Pacific wide regional architecture which is conducive for the maintenance regional peace and stability," Marty said.
He added that the kind of conditions that have enabled countries in the region to pursue a development path was uninterrupted by wars and conflicts.
"In the current regional setting, we in Indonesia describe this as being conditions marked by a dynamic equilibrium. Where preponderant power is absent not by the promotion of bloc politics and often self-fulfilling geopolitical fault lines; rather, a new kind of international relations with its emphasis on common security, common prosperity and common stability," Marty said.
He also said that the East Asia Summit in Bali later in November with with the first time participation by the Russian Federation and the United States would be an important part such regional architecture.
"As ASEAN attains its Community and continues its central role in maintaining a stable and peaceful environment in the Asia-Pacific, it is setting for itself a new challenge and vision: to develop greater cohesion and common platform on global issues. An ASEAN that is a net contributor for the solution of many of the world`s ills and challenges," Marty said. (*)
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