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"en.20120418.18.3-236-000"2
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"The Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), which was signed into force by the original members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1976, lays down very important principles, such as mutual respect for the independence, sovereignty, equality, territorial integrity and national identity of all nations, and the right of every state to lead its national existence free from external interference, subversion or coercion. The state signatories to the treaty set up a free trade zone in 1992, which was concluded in 2008. The ASEAN countries have a population of 600 million people. ASEAN collectively generates a GDP of some USD 1 500 billion and is our third largest trading partner outside the EU, with trade in goods and services worth over EUR 206 billion. We support the signing of this treaty on account of the principles it enshrines, but we neither hold nor encourage any illusions as to the reasons why the EU is signing it. It is a political and diplomatic manoeuvre aimed at creating more favourable conditions for its goal of setting up a free trade zone between the EU and ASEAN. The EU demonstrates every day, and in everything it does, that it treats these principles as dead letters."@en1
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