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( Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
The Association of South-East Asian Nations,[1] commonly referred to as ASEAN, pronounced /'??si???n/ AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc)[2], is a geo-political and economic organization of 10 countries located in South-East Asia, which was formed on August 8, 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.[3] Its aims include the acceleration of economic growth, social progress, cultural development among its members, and the promotion of regional peace.[4] In 2005, the bloc spanned over 1.1 billion acres with a combined GDP (Nominal/PPP) of about USD$896.5 billion/$2.728 billion growing at an average rate of around 5.6% per annum. Nominal GDP had grown to $1,073.9 billion in 2006. ASEAN was preceded by an organization called the Association of South-East Asia, commonly called ASEA, an alliance consisting of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand that was formed in 1961. The bloc itself, however, was established on August 8, 1967, when foreign ministers of five countries&_160;– Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand&_160;– met at the Thai Department of Foreign Affairs building in Bangkok and signed the ASEAN Declaration, more commonly known as the Bangkok Declaration. The five foreign ministers&_160;– Adam Malik of Indonesia, Narciso Ramos of the Philippines, Abdul Razak of Malaysia, S. Rajaratnam of Singapore, and Thanat Khoman of Thailand&_160;– are considered as the organization's Founding Fathers.[5] The motivations for the birth of ASEAN were the desire for a stable external environment (so that its members’ governing elite could concentrate on nation building), the common fear of communism, reduced faith in or mistrust of external powers in the 1960s, as well as the aspiration for national economic development; not to mention Indonesia’s ambition to become a regional hegemon through regional cooperation and the hope on the part of Malaysia and Singapore to constrain Indonesia and bring it into a more cooperative framework. Unlike the European Union, ASEAN was designed to serve nationalism.[6]
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