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ASEAN Ministerial Understanding On ASEAN Cooperation In Agriculture And Cooperatives
Manila, 4-5 October 1984 |
WE the undersigned, representing member countries in the ASEAN, attending the Sixth Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry in Manila on 4 - 5 October, 1984 upon the invitation of His Excellency Dr. Salvador R. Escudero III, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of the Philippines;
RECALLING the Declaration of ASEAN Concord signed in Bali, Indonesia on 24 February 1976 which provides that ASEAN member countries shall take cooperative action in their national and regional development programmes;
REAFFIRMING the principles guiding ASEAN Acceleration in the field of fod and agriculture to promote a strong, peaceful and resilient ASEAN Community;
NOTING the ASEAN member countries desire to jointly promote the development of cooperatives as a means of improving the living standard of the peoples of the Region as expressed in the Meeting of ASEAN Economic Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 20 - 21 February, 1980;
BELIEVING that the growth and develop- ment of cooperatives in the Region need closer cooperation among ASEAN member countries;
DO HEREBY STATE that we have reached a consensus on the following:
A. To implement a Programme of Action to promote the development of agricultural cooperatives in the ASEAN Region through:
- exchanges of relevant information and experience among member countries;
- education and training of personnel and cooperators;
- research and development programmes; and
- other project activities related to agricultural cooperatives
B. The need to establish an ASEAN Centre for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives (ACEDAC) to be located in Jakarta, Indonesia with the task of implementing the abovementioned Programme of Action.
DONE in Manila, Philippines on the Fifth of October, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Four in seven original copies in the English language.
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