Nonintervention good for ASEAN members

Nonintervention good for ASEAN members

MANILA (AFP): A policy of not intervening with each other's
internal affairs has worked well for the 10-member Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), scholars and businessmen said
here on Monday.

Singapore professor Chin Tet Yung said the ASEAN Eminent
Persons Group reviewed over the weekend the grouping's consensus
building policy which he credited for helping solve past crises
in the region.

The Eminent Persons Group is composed of academics and members
of the private sector tasked by ASEAN leaders to come up with
recommendations to help shape future policies.

"We are looking into ways and means of consensus mechanism in
ASEAN and try to work on symbolically with the nonintervention
policy," Chin told a news conference here.