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Thailand’s ASEAN Chairmanship 2019
Date of issue : 01 - 06 - 2019
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration among its members and other countries in Asia.
The creation of ASEAN was motivated by a common fear of communism, ASEAN achieved greater cohesion in the mid-1970s following a change in balance of power after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. The region's dynamic economic growth during the 1970s strengthened the organization. The end of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s allowed ASEAN countries to exercise greater political independence in the region, and in the 1990s ASEAN emerged as a leading voice on regional trade and security issues.
On 15 December 2008, member states met in Jakarta to launch a charter, signed in November 2007, with the aim of moving closer to "an EU-style community".
Thailand takes over the Chairmanship of ASEAN for a year in 2019.
Thanks Narong for the beautiful cover with a lovely stamp - a bouquet of all the national flowers of the ten countries tied with a ribbon in the colours of Thai flag !
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