ASEAN Summit Plenary session begins
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-11-20 10:56
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(Seated clockwise from top L) Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary-General Ong Keng Yong, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand's Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono talk before starting an informal working dinner of the 13th ASEAN Summit at the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore November 19, 2007. Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are set to sign a landmark charter on Tuesday that calls for promotion of democracy and human rights, even as the 10-member group grapples with Western calls for sanctions on Myanmar. [Agencies]
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