Full Text of Joint Statement of China-ASEAN Commemorative
Summit
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and leaders of ASEAN members signed a
joint statement Monday following the commemorative summit marking
the 15th anniversary of the establishment of China-ASEAN dialogue.
Following is the full text of the statement.
Joint Statement of China-ASEAN Commemorative
Summit
Towards An Enhanced China-ASEAN Strategic
Partnership
1.????????
We, the Heads of State/Government of the People's Republic of China
and the Member Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) gathered on 30 October 2006 in the "Year of
Friendship and Cooperation between China and ASEAN" in Nanning,
China, to commemorate the Fifteenth Anniversary of the China-ASEAN
dialogue relations.
Fifteen Years of Working and Growing
Together
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2.????????
We reviewed the progress in China-ASEAN dialogue relations and
expressed satisfaction that this cooperation is comprehensive and
deepening in many areas of mutual interest. The strategic
partnership for peace and prosperity between China and ASEAN has
not only vigorously boosted their own development and brought
tangible benefits to their peoples, but also contributed
significantly to peace, stability and prosperity in the region and
the world at large. We are confident that we have laid down a solid
foundation for enhanced future cooperation between China and
ASEAN.
3.????????
We highly appreciated the strengthened political and security
cooperation following the signing of the Joint Declaration on
Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in 2003 in Bali, and
the adoption of the China-ASEAN Plan of Action in 2004 in
Vientiane. We commended China for being the first Dialogue Partner
of ASEAN to accede to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) in
Southeast Asia in 2003 in Bali. We were pleased with the signing of
the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea
(DOC) in 2002. The China-ASEAN Joint Declaration in the Field of
Non-Traditional Security Issues of 2002 also increased the
cooperation in dealing with transnational crime.
4.????????
We welcomed the positive effects of the China-ASEAN Framework
Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation signed in 2002 in
Phnom Penh. In 2005, the China-ASEAN trade volume reached US$130.37
billion. While the total volume of ASEAN's actual investment in
China reached US$3.1 billion, China's investment in ASEAN increased
to US$158 million in 2005. In this connection, ASEAN welcomed
China's commitment to increase its investment in ASEAN. We were
pleased with the successful holding of the first and the second
China-ASEAN Expo and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit
in Nanning, China, which facilitated contacts among business people
and promoted trade and investment between China and ASEAN. The
envisioned China-ASEAN Free Trade Area is crystallizing.
5.????????
We noted with satisfaction the expansion of China-ASEAN cooperation
from five to ten priority areas, namely, agriculture, information
and communication technology (ICT), human resource development
(HRD), two-way investment, Mekong River Basin development,
transportation, energy, culture, tourism and public health, as well
as the signing of several Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs). These
activities promoted closer cooperation in tackling new challenges
such as natural disasters and communicable diseases and also more
people-to-people contacts.
Moving into the Future Together
Strengthening the Strategic Partnership
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We believe that the achievements made in the past 15 years in
China-ASEAN dialogue relations have been the result of adherence by
both sides to the principles enshrined in the TAC, the Five
Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, the Ten Principles of the
Bandung Asian-African Conference, the purposes and principles of
the UN Charter and other relevant international laws, treaties, and
conventions. China and ASEAN relations will continue to be fully
guided by these principles.
7.????????
Moving into the future, we agree to further enhance mutual trust
and understanding and match the depth and breadth of cooperation
with the objective of our strategic partnership to further enhance
peace, development and prosperity to the region.
8.??????
We reaffirm our commitment to effectively implement:
the Joint Statement of the President of the People's Republic of
China and the Heads of State/Government of the Member Countries of
ASEAN 1997;
the Joint Declaration on the China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership
for Peace and Prosperity 2003;
the China-ASEAN Plan of Action 2004 to Implement Joint
Declaration on the China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership for Peace and
Prosperity; and
Other Agreements/MOUs between China and ASEAN.
9.????????
We are committed to deepen collaboration in the ten priority areas
of China-ASEAN cooperation. In enhancing our cooperation, we will
also take into account the Report of the China-ASEAN Eminent
Persons Group (EPG) of 2005.
10.????
We, the Leaders of ASEAN, highly appreciated China's continued
commitment to support ASEAN's community building efforts, including
the implementation of the Plans of Action of the ASEAN Security
Community, ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN Socio-Cultural
Community, Vientiane Action Program (VAP), the Initiative for ASEAN
Integration (IAI) and other ASEAN initiatives. In this context,
ASEAN welcomed China's contribution of US$1 million to the ASEAN
Development Fund (ADF) and China's funding assistance of US$1
million for IAI projects.
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We will work in concert to advance the strategic partnership, which
would be a catalyst for dialogue relations between ASEAN and its
Dialogue Partners and greatly contribute to regional peace and
stability thereby ensuring continuous prosperity and progress for
our peoples. To this end, we expressed our determination to achieve
the following:
Political and Security Cooperation
12. We are committed to maintain high-level visits; strengthen
cooperation and information sharing in non-traditional security
issues; promote cooperation on criminal justice and law
enforcement, including in anti-corruption efforts; encourage
exchange of defense/security officials; work together in ensuring
maritime security in the region; and strengthen regional
cooperation on disaster management and emergency preparedness,
including post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts,
with ASEAN taking the lead.
13. China supports and welcomes ASEAN's efforts to establish a
Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone. ASEAN appreciates China's
intention to accede to the Protocol to the Treaty on the Southeast
Asia Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone and will continue to consult China on
this matter.
14. We are also committed to effectively implement the
Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC)
and work towards the eventual adoption, on the basis of consensus,
of a code of conduct in the South China Sea, which would enhance
peace and stability in the region.?
15. We are also fully committed to support the realization of
the ASEAN Security Community.
Economic Cooperation
16. We are determined to establish the China-ASEAN Free Trade
Area by 2010 as scheduled; including trade in goods liberalization
by 2010 for ASEAN-6 and China and by 2015 for Cambodia, Lao PDR,
Myanmar and Viet Nam; work expeditiously towards agreements to
progressively liberalize trade in services with substantial
sectoral coverage and to promote investments by creating a liberal,
facilitative, transparent and competitive investment regime in
China and ASEAN, as envisioned in China-ASEAN Framework Agreement
on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation; establish the China-ASEAN
Center for Trade, Investment and Tourism Promotion; promote the
growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their
participation in the regional economy; cooperate in ensuring energy
security, efficiency, and development of alternative and renewable
energy sources; strengthen cooperation in finance; deepen
cooperation in tourism and travel; work towards a fully liberalized
air services regime between China and ASEAN; and support the
realization of the ASEAN Economic Community.
17. We encourage further cooperation between China and ASEAN in
support of sub-regional developments, including the development of
economic cooperation zones in areas covering southwestern China;
BIMP-EAGA; ACMECS; IMT-GT; GMS; and the ASEAN Mekong Basin
Development areas, including the completion of the
Singapore-Kunming Rail Link (SKRL) and other areas.
Socio-Cultural Cooperation
18. We agreed to strengthen our socio-cultural cooperation by
encouraging greater cooperation between institutions of secondary
and higher education; increasing youth exchanges by initiating the
China-ASEAN Young Leaders Conference, China-ASEAN Young
Entrepreneurs Association and China-ASEAN Young Civil Servants'
Exchange Program as flagship projects; launching a prestigious
China-ASEAN Scholarship; promoting scholarly exchanges; supporting
the Center for ASEAN and China Studies; enhancing greater contacts
between media personnel, academics and Track II institutions,
parliamentarians and civil society; supporting the activities of
the ASEAN Foundation in promoting greater people-to-people
interaction; cooperating in public health to address the challenges
of emerging infectious diseases; and supporting the realization,
including projects and activities under the MoU between China and
ASEAN on Cultural Cooperation, of the ASEAN Socio-cultural
Community.
Regional and International Cooperation
19. We agree to continue to consult closely on sub-regional,
regional and international issues and to cooperate in sub-regional,
regional and international fora. We also reaffirm the establishment
of the East Asia community as a long-term goal. China supports
ASEAN's role as the driving force in regional processes, such as
the ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN Plus Three and East Asia Summit.
ASEAN believes that a stable, developing and prosperous China will
contribute to peace, stability and sustainable growth for the
development of the region and reaffirms its One-China Policy.
20. We tasked our Ministers and Senior Officials to realize the
goals, initiatives and activities outlined in this Joint
Statement.
Done in Nanning, China, on the Thirtieth Day of October in the
Year Two Thousand and Six, in two original copies in the English
language.
For the People's Republic of China: Wen Jiabao Premier
For Brunei Darussalam: Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Sultan of Brunei
Darussalam
For the Kingdom of Cambodia: Samdech Hun Sen Prime Minister
For the Republic of Indonesia: Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President
For the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Bouasone Bouphavanh
Prime Minister
For Malaysia: Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Prime
Minister
For the Union of Myanmar: General Soe Win Prime Minister
For the Republic of the Philippines: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
President
For the Republic of Singapore: Lee Hsien Loong Prime
Minister
For the Kingdom of Thailand: General Surayud Chulanont (RET.)
Prime Minister
For the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: Nguyen Tan Dung Prime
Minister??
(Xinhua News Agency October 31, 2006)