The Rise of Asia:
“No question facing the international community is more urgent than whether Asia’s economic, political, and cultural rise will be peaceful and Asia’s prosperity widely shared.”

“More significantly, the peaceful rise of Asia will depend on the steady, patient help of friends and allies outside Asia, and on the availability of global multilateral institutions”

“Asia’s multilateral future will be a complex and changing tapestry of diverse arrangements, all linked to partners outside Asia. Managing Asia’s rise will be a game played on many boards at once. Only by a being knit to one another and to the world will we develop the capacity to manage the dramatic political and economic transformation in Asia peacefully.”

Multilateral institutions:
“Our multilateral institutions should be incubators for new ideas, clearing houses for sharing experience, resources for national and local experimentation. Global cities, transnational enterprises, nongovernmental institutions – all must be partners. We must learn from the experiences of government – but we must be open to ideas and practices from other sectors – management tools from the private sector, spiritual tools from the world’s religious communities.”

Management:
“As we build the institutions to manage Asia’s rise, accountability should be our motto: accountability of states to their citizens, of states to one another, of international institutions to their members, and of this present generation to future ones. We should be careful that this means the right thing in the right context.”

“Whatever we wish our institutions to achieve, they must first be well managed, their staff alive to new possibilities, their procedures transparent and accountable.”

Sustainable Development:
“ Sustainable development begins at home, nut it does not stay at home. The principle of “Prosper Thy Neighbor” guides Thailand’s policy with our immediate neighbors.”

Asian financial architecture:
“An Asian bond market, improved multilateral machinery for swapping foreign reserves to ease liquidity problems in times of crisis, and improved surveillance mechanisms would all strengthen our regional financial architecture. As we learn to prevent financial crises, we will contribute to global financial stability.”

Human rights:
“Respect for one’s neighbors must always be tempered by an insistence that all respect human rights and human dignity. Only by working together will we achieve an Asian future that embraces human freedom and provides for our common security”.

“Economic growth must enhance respect for our environment, for human dignity and human rights. Health and education are not only important for development – their achievement defines development. The rise of Asia will be a boon for the world if we contribute to the global respect for human dignity, if we add to our common local, national and global experience of democracy and offer new opportunities for the responsible exercise of political freedom.”

Peace:
“Above all, we know that the peace we seek will not be the peace of the status-quo – urgent change is upon us. We must rekindle the aspiration for collective security and peaceful change. To manage peace we must learn to manage change.”

Asian community:
“The emerging Asian community will be inclusive, not exclusive. We seek not only our own prosperity, but global prosperity. Ours will be an open regionalism.”

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