ASEAN sets summit, welcomes charter (CNN) -- An Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit will take place late February in Thailand, its government announced Tuesday, a day after Abhisit Vejjajiva was picked as Thai prime minister and ASEAN's charter came into force. 本周二，在Abhisit Vejjajiva获选为泰国新任总理，以及东协宪章正式生效的一天之後 ，泰国政府宣布东协高峰会将在二月下旬於泰国召开。 The summit had been scheduled to take place this week in the northern city of Chiang Mai but was postponed because protests by opposition parties shut down Bangkok's airports. 这次高峰会原本规划在本周於泰北大城清迈举行，後因反对派示威关闭曼谷机场影响而被 延期。 On Monday ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, marked the enactment of a new charter setting free trade and political liberalization standards for the 10 members. 本周一，东协各国外长在印尼雅加达开会制定新宪章，规定东协十个成员国的自 由贸易与政治自由化标准。 "From now on, ASEAN shall operate under the new legal framework laid down in the ASEAN Charter," ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said. 东协秘书长Surin Pitsuwan表示：「现在起，东协将要在东协宪章底下的 新法律架构中运作。 The charter sets a 2015 goal for establishing a free-trade zone among its members and lays out a set of political, economic and "people-oriented" commitments -- including respect for democratic principles and human rights, a "nuclear weapon-free Southeast Asia" and progress toward regional economic integration. 东协宪章设定，在2015年建立自由贸易区，并规划一系列政治、经济，与 「以人民为主」的承诺──包括尊重民主原则与人权，东南亚非核区，并朝向 区域经济整合迈进。 In August, ASEAN ministers agreed to expand those integration efforts, particularly with the slowdown in global demand in sight. 东协外长在八月时同意扩大经济整合，特别是在眼前的全球需求趋缓情势下。 "What they're trying to do is take just a first step towards building that kind of community that's based on rules that has a more common set of understanding of how these nations should behave," Asia observer Jamie Metzl told CNN. 观察家Jamie Metzl向CNN记者表示：「东协国家共同认识到应该如何作为，并衍生 出一些规则，而东协正在做的只是在这些规则之上，朝向建立共同体所跨出的第一 步。」 However, he said, the treaty has only weak tools to address members that violate those standards -- a situation that is likely to arise in the case of Myanmar, formerly Burma, where the ruling military junta violently suppressed protests led by Buddhist monks in 2007. 然而Metzl表示，东协宪章只有一些无力的工具来对付破坏标准的成员国，如同东协在 2007年缅甸军政府武力镇压僧侣示威时所面临的状况一样。 In addition to Thailand, Indonesia and Myanmar, ASEAN's members include Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines. 除了泰国、印尼与缅甸，东协成员包括新加坡、汶莱、马来西亚、寮国、越南、柬埔寨与 菲律宾。 In May, Myanmar agreed to allow ASEAN members to send medical personnel and an assessment team following the devastation of Cyclone Nargis. This summer, ASEAN foreign ministers met in Singapore to seek a resolution to the military standoff between Cambodia and Thailand. 今年五月纳吉斯风灾後，缅甸同意让其他东协成员国派遣医疗人员与评估团队入境。夏季 ，东协各国外长在新加坡开会讨论如何解决柬埔寨与泰国间的军事对峙局面。 原文引自 CNN 新闻网： http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/16/thailand.asean/index.html --

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