The biggest political challenge confronting ASEAN today, as in the resent past, is the Kampuchean question.
The economic picture likewise has not been as rosy as it used to be. ASEANs trade performance in recent years has become more and more dismal.
ASEAN Documents Series 1967 - 1988 is the Third Editionof the publication. The first edition, ASEAN Documents Series 1969 - 1985 and Revised edition of 1967 - 1986, were published in May 1985 and May 1986 respectively.
Cooperation between ASEAN and its dialogue partners has also been strengthened at both the governmental and the private sector levels.
In a word, it is the combination of experiences gained by the Vietnamese people in the course of a long struggle against colonialism, for national independence a struggle which ended in 1954 with the brielliant Dien Bien Phu victory and the signing of the Geneva Agreements.