ASEAN continued to adopt a joint stand and comon approach on international economic issues.
Five ASEAN agreements were also signed at the end of the Third ASEAN Summit. The ASEAN Foreign Ministers signed the Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, witch would allow other states in Southeast Asia and states outside Southeast Asia to accede to the Treaty
The book Scientific-Technical Progress the Revolution in Military Affairs has been written by a group of officers and generals consisting of: Maj Gen I. I. Anureyev, doctor of military scinces and professor (Chapter II)
ASEAN, turning twenty-one years old this year, could be regarded as having passed the threshold of adulthood.