00:00The summit in KL, I never felt that there was a loss, or even an erosion of ASEAN centrality.
00:12I didn't feel it. I'm always talking to the Thai diplomats.
00:15I never get that notion of any other delegate in ASEAN.
00:20I think Malaysia did its very best.
00:23If, again, you go back to that summit meeting, I think President Trump had his own work cut out for him.
00:37Of course, the agreement between Cambodia and Thailand.
00:43During the ASEAN-China summit, everything was, the issues and functional cooperation were there.
00:51In other words, what I'm trying to say is, I do not think that there was a erosion of ASEAN centrality in the last summit.
00:59And we will continue to have that, continue to strengthen ASEAN centrality.
01:05That's why the solidarity.
01:07So I never had that feeling, I never had that notion, I never had any discussion that there was such a erosion of ASEAN centrality.
01:17There.
01:18Okay.
01:19Okay.
01:20First of all, a special envoy of Myanmar, to Myanmar, by the Philippines, and of course representing ASEAN.
01:29The objective right now is to build on what has been done with the previous chairs, particularly Malaysia.
01:38Malaysia had about 170 engagements.
01:41And we are of the view that we cannot do everything that was done by Malaysia, or even the past chairs, starting from Thailand.
01:50So it is the view, it is our view, it is the Philippine position that we will just be working on what has been established.
01:57And to continue, it's really the issue of continuity.
02:00So that no, what they have done before is something that we can just continue to do.
02:08Now, you mentioned the words to go there, to go there.
02:13We are still trying to discuss, we are still discussing these things.
02:19In fact, it will be first discussed during the retreat, that will be in January, of the foreign ministers.
02:25The strategy is still being developed, as I was just designated by the president.
02:34And your other question was?
02:37So there will be no discussion before the election.
02:40Because before, the post-aparticle before.
02:43There will be some, I cannot be very sure, because you see that the chairship of Malaysia ends until December 31st.
02:50So there will be, there's some worthy group meetings going on.
02:54And there will be discussions.
02:56There are two elements basically, is one, what will be the situation, and what is the,
03:01will ASEAN sit, observer, missions to the election, for coming elections in December.
03:09This is still being discussed.
03:11There are also elements, there are also questions on, should ASEAN have a longer term,
03:19special envoy.
03:20Perhaps all this will be discussed, particularly the possibility of having a longer term,
03:26special envoy during the chairship of the Philippines.
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