Last Updated: DECEMBER 12 2005

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ASEAN CHARTER-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo prepares to sign the Kuala Lumpur Declarations on the Establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Charter Monday (Dec. 12) at the Plenary Theater of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia. The other ASEAN leaders who also signed the Kuala Lumpur Declarations are (from left) Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam, Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Prime Minister Boungnang Vorachith of Laos, Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister Soe Win of the Union of Myanmar, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the Republic of Singapore, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand, and Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai. (Exequiel Supera-OPS-NIB Photo)