Venue: European Parliament, Brussels Belgium
Date: 29 April 2009
Number of Participants: 20 participants including 4 presenters
The panel provided a detailed report of the main features of the Charter as well as insights to the negotiations surrounding the Charter and ASEAN Human Rights Body to an audience of about 20 Asian ambassadors to the EU, think tank experts, foundation officials and other Brussels-based Asia-watchers. The sessions were chaired by Mr. Seamus Gillespie, Head of the South-East Asia Unit in the Directorate-General for External Relations of the European Commission and H.E. Mr. Anil Kumar Nayar, Ambassador of Singapore to the European Union. Dr. David Camroux, Senior Lecturer at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, gave a comprehensive summary of the afternoon’s proceedings as panel rapporteur.
Panelists included:
- H.E. Ambassador Rosario Manalo, Former Chair of the High Level Task Force on the drafting of the ASEAN Charter
- Dato’ Deva Mohd. Ridzam, Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Malaysia
- Mr. James Moran, Director for Asia, Directorate-General for External Relations, European Commission
- Mr. Xavier Nuttin, Head for Asia, Policy Unit, Directorate-General for External Policies, European Parliament
