Cayetano: 50 years of Asean prove critics wrong

THE celebration of the 50th year existence of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is a clear proof that critics, who said that the regional bloc was doomed from the start, were wrong.

“We have rejoiced on how an organization that the critics said would be dead when it is born, where critics said that it is doomed from the start is now turning or has now turned 50 today,” said Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano during the closing ceremony of the 50th Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Manila.