{"id":102883,"date":"2017-05-17T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=102883"},"modified":"2017-05-17T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T23:10:14","slug":"entry-of-new-members-dialogue-partners-depend-on-asean-itself-ex-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/17\/entry-of-new-members-dialogue-partners-depend-on-asean-itself-ex-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry of new members, dialogue partners depend on ASEAN itself \u2013ex-envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102881\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102881\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) grouping itself may consider its economic and political relationships with potential members or dialogue partners when deciding to expand its membership, according to a former envoy. (Photo: ASEAN\/ Facebook)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) grouping itself may consider its economic and political relationships with potential members or dialogue partners when deciding to expand its membership, according to a former envoy. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aseansecretariat\">ASEAN\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2013The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) grouping itself may consider its economic and political relationships with potential members or dialogue partners when deciding to expand its membership, according to a former envoy.<\/p>\n<p>This after Turkey and Mongolia have expressed their intention to join the ASEAN grouping even though they are not geographically part of the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDialogue partners are really institutions which have been established for quite some time\u2026 In matters in the economic sphere, economic pillar, it would all depend on ASEAN itself,\u201d said former foreign affairs undersecretary for policy and ambassador to the United Nations Lauro Baja Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Baja told reporters ASEAN members need to consider \u201csubstantial relations\u201d with prospective dialogue partners.<\/p>\n<p>He cited Sri Lanka with membership application denied because it was outside the geographical confines of Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>While East Timor and Papua New Guinea remained observer status in ASEAN, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2013The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) grouping itself may consider its economic and political relationships with potential members or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[595,19203],"class_list":["post-102883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-asean","tag-new-members","mauthors-leslie-d-venzon","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}