ASEAN History 4

Question 1

Which ASEAN-led process was instrumental in negotiating the Paris Peace Agreements of 1991 that ended the Cambodian conflict?

Accepted Answer

The Jakarta Informal Meetings

Answer

The Jakarta Informal Meetings (JIMs), chaired by Indonesia's foreign minister Ali Alatas, were the ASEAN-led diplomatic process that helped broker the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia.

Question 2

When Vietnam joined ASEAN in 1995, it was significant partly because Vietnam had previously been involved in which action that ASEAN strongly opposed?

Accepted Answer

The military occupation of Cambodia

Answer

Vietnam's 1978 invasion and subsequent occupation of Cambodia was strongly condemned by ASEAN, making Vietnam's 1995 membership a landmark reconciliation.

Question 3

The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), established in 1994, was significant because it was the first multilateral security dialogue to include which major power?

Accepted Answer

China

Answer

The ARF's significance lay partly in being the first multilateral security forum in Asia-Pacific to include China, helping to engage Beijing in regional security dialogue.

Question 4

ASEAN's response to Myanmar's military coup in February 2021 resulted in what unprecedented action?

Accepted Answer

Barring Myanmar's military junta from ASEAN summits

Answer

In an unusual move, ASEAN excluded Myanmar's junta leaders from summits in 2021 after the military failed to implement the agreed Five-Point Consensus peace plan.

Question 5

The ASEAN Community was officially established on December 31, 2015, consisting of three pillars. Which of the following is NOT one of those pillars?

Accepted Answer

ASEAN Military Defense Community

Answer

The three pillars of the ASEAN Community are the Political-Security Community, Economic Community, and Socio-Cultural Community — there is no military defense pillar.

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ASEAN History 4