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The 20th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Summit held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ended with an apt reminder by the host that the grouping was just three years from its deadline of forming an ASEAN Community by 2015. Members of ASEAN, Prime Minister Hun Sen said, must maintain their focus on the agreed roadmaps to that important goal. The Phnom Penh Agenda issued at the end of the leaders' summit underscored this urgency in half of its nine points. There were exhortations to "intensify all efforts" to implement the various plans. Such a reminder must be taken seriously, coming from one of ASEAN's less developed members whose state of readiness, it was feared, could slow down the 2015 plan. Unless Mr Hun Sen was just paying lip service, the Phnom Penh Agenda should allay concerns that Cambodia would drag its feet on the integration agenda, notwithstanding the add...

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