3. Current membership includes the 10 ASEAN states (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) plus Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Korea, North Korea (as of July 2000), New Zealand, the United States, Vietnam, and the European Community.
4. The Chairman's Statement can be found on the ASEAN web site <www.ASEAN.org> or on the Pacific Forum web site in either abridged or complete form [PacNet #31/31A].
5. For example, an ASEAN "Troika" of foreign ministers helped to mediate between rival elements in Cambodia in 1998 at Cambodia's begrudging invitation, with Phnom Penh's desire to join ASEAN providing the necessary leverage to permit this diplomatic intervention into internal Cambodian affairs.
6. ARF Chairman's Statement, July 27, 2000, Bangkok.
7. The Pacific Concord draft was developed at ARF Track Two meetings in Vladivostok (April 1999) and Moscow (February 2000); I was among the non-government participants.
8. CSCAP committees have been established in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, South and North Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. Taiwan scholars participate in their private capacities.
9. This Working Group next convenes in Kuala Lumpur in late October 2000 but with a focus on the impact of globalization on regional security.
10. The minutes of the various Working Group meetings are available on the CSCAP Web Site <www.cscap.org>. A copy of the Working Definition and Statement of Principles is attached to the summaries of the 1999 Bangkok and 2000 Singapore Preventive Diplomacy Workshop minutes or is available upon request from the Pacific Forum, which manages the US Committee of CSCAP. I co-chair the CSBM Working Group.
11. This was an off-the-record discussion and was not further chronicled. The summary is based on the author's recollection of the meeting and is provided solely to stimulate discussion.
12. William Clinton, A National Security Strategy for a New Century, December 1999, The White House, p.iii.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid, p.34.
15. Officially titled The United States Security Strategy for the East Asia-Pacific Region.
16. EASR-1998, p.9.
17. Ibid.
18. North Korea has been invited and encouraged to participate but has thus far opted out―it remains to be seen if Pyongyang's "smile diplomacy" will extend to the NEACD.
Ralph A. Cossa
Executive Director
Pacific Forum
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
