President Yudhoyono has decided not to attend the summit so that he could personally monitored conditions in the country especially with regard to the government`s plan to raise the price of subsidized oil fuels.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will not attend the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia and has assigned Vice President Boediono to represent him at the meeting, Julian Aldrin Pasha, said.

"Right. The President has delegated the vice president to represent him at the meeting," he said here on Friday night.

Julian said President Yudhoyono has decided not to attend the summit so that he could personally monitored conditions in the country especially with regard to the government`s plan to raise the price of subsidized oil fuels.

"This way he could give directives personally," he said.

The summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is scheduled to be held in Phnom Penh on April 2-4, 2012.

The 20th meeting plans to discuss among others the ASEAN Declaration of One Community, One Destiny, the Declaration of ASEAN leaders on Narcotics-Free ASEAN in 2015 and the Concept on Moderate Global Movement.(*)

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