The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting with High Level Legal experts’ Group on follow up to the ASEAN Charter (HLEG)

The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting with High Level Legal experts’ Group on follow up to the ASEAN Charter (HLEG)

On 27 February 2009 at 12.45-13.45 hrs. at Dusit Thani Hua Hin Hotel, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, H.E. Kasit Piromya, the Foreign Minister of Thailand, chaired the Meeting between ASEAN Foreign Ministers and the High Level Legal Experts’ Group on Follow-Up to the ASEAN Charter (HLEG).

The ASEAN Foreign Ministers agreed that the drafting of legal instruments on legal personality of ASEAN and the development of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms among the Member States will facilitate the smooth and effective functioning of ASEAN, as well as fostering ASEAN into a rules-based organization. This will help ASEAN Member States integrate with confidence, which will move ASEAN forward as an ASEAN Community. Furthermore, it will help ASEAN achieve a greater dynamism in its relationships with its dialogue partners and other international organizations.