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        "msgid": "asean-membership-defended-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-06-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "ASEAN membership defended",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
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        "summary": "ASEAN membership defended SINGAPORE (AFP): ASEAN has not reached a stage where the principle of human rights can dictate membership in the regional club, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in remarks released here yesterday. The remarks were made in an interview with Philippine journalists a day before ASEAN on May 31 decided to admit Myanmar ignoring western pressure to keep it out over alleged human rights abuses by the Rangoon junta.",
        "content": "<p>ASEAN membership defended<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE (AFP): ASEAN has not reached a stage where the<br>\nprinciple of human rights can dictate membership in the regional<br>\nclub, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in remarks<br>\nreleased here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were made in an interview with Philippine<br>\njournalists a day before ASEAN on May 31 decided to admit Myanmar<br>\nignoring western pressure to keep it out over alleged human<br>\nrights abuses by the Rangoon junta.<\/p>\n<p>The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups<br>\nBrunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand<br>\nand Vietnam. Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos will join next month.<\/p>\n<p>\"Each one of us has our own perception of the degree of human<br>\nrights,\" Goh said according to the transcript of the interview<br>\nreleased here ahead of his visit to the Philippines next week.<\/p>\n<p>\"Core human rights, we in Singapore believe in that. But<br>\nMyanmar? What about Cambodia? What about Laos? What about<br>\nPhilippines? Do we say that a country which ignores certain<br>\nprinciples of human rights should leave ASEAN?<\/p>\n<p>\"We haven't come to that stage yet.\"<\/p>",
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