AAA inducts Vietnam

AAA inducts Vietnam

JAKARTA (JP): The ASEAN International Airport Association
(AAA) completed its 14th annual meeting here yesterday and agreed
to incorporate Vietnam into the association in the next meeting
slated here next year.

State-owned PT Angkasa Pura II, which manages several airports
including Soekarno-Hatta international airport, hosted the
meeting, which discussed various topics, including comparison of
airport charges among members, passenger service charges, airport
development, passenger handling services and airport statistic.

Angkasa Pura II said in a statement yesterday that the AAA
constitution stipulates that every member country of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will automatically
become a member of AAA.

"Since Vietnam has become the seventh member of ASEAN, the
meeting agreed to invite Vietnam to attend the next meeting of
AAA in 1996," the statement said.

Besides Vietnam, ASEAN groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. (rid)