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Outcome of the 2nd ASEAN Political-Security Community Council (APSC)
(Phuket, 21 July 2009) Mr. Vitavas Srivihok, Director-General of Thailand’s ASEAN Affairs Department gave a press briefing on the outcome of the 2nd ASEAN Political-Security Community Council (APSC), convened at the Sheraton Grande Laguna Phuket this morning.
The APSC meeting discussed the progress made on the implementation of the priority areas and agreed to put more effort into expediting implementation of the priorities. The ASEAN Foreign Ministers agreed to add two more priority areas in the work of the organization’s Political and Security Council. They are actions relating to political and security issues under the work plan of ASEAN’s initiative for reducing the region’s development gaps and the implementation of the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea.
The APSC is a new body set up when the ASEAN Charter came into effect, with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers serving as members of the Council. The APSC is assigned the task of developing ASEAN political and security cooperation towards the goal of an ASEAN Community by 2015 as stipulated in the ASEAN Political and Security Community Blueprint adopted last March at the 14th ASEAN Summit.
 
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