Cebu, Philippines - 11 January 2007 1. Zoom into ASEAN Foreign Ministers linking arms during photo-opportunity prior to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Ministerial Meeting FILE: Cebu, Philippines - 8 December 2006 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alberto Romulo, Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary: "The purpose of the treaty is to provide peace and stability to our region and therefore any effort by terrorist groups to destabilise would be contrary to the purpose of the ASEAN East Asia summit which is to provide peace, stability and prosperity to the region." FILE: Hanoi, Vietnam - 18 November 2006 3. Wide of meeting between ASEAN leaders in Hanoi 4. Lee Hsien-Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore 5. Surayud Chulanont, Thailand Prime Minister and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian Prime Minister in meeting 6. Various of meeting 7. Close of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines 8. Close of Badawi 9. Nguyen Minh Triet, Vietnamese President and Alberto Romulo, Foreign Secretary of the Philippines seated together FILE: Cebu, Philippines - 8 December 2006 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alberto Romulo, Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary: "Of course, we have the ongoing arrangement and agreement between our countries in ASEAN to share intelligence information, to patrol our borders, our coast, and to see to it that we do not give haven to terrorists. And to see to it that terrorists are apprehended and dealt with in our respective laws." Cebu, Philippines - 10 January 2007 11. Romulo walking with Nur Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian Foreign Minister before bilateral meeting 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nur Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian Foreign Minister "Basically, what we are trying to do collectively as ASEAN is to strengthen all instruments, political but also legal instruments. Of course in the past, we have issued political statements, joint statements, but it's timely to have more strong instruments. That's why we are working on ASEAN agreements on counter terrorism. But in the end, yes, legal instruments, but the actual cooperation is also important." FILE: Bali, Indonesia - 13 October 2002 13. Pan of bomb site 14. Police at bomb site 15. Burnt out cars FILE: Bali, Indonesia - 15 October 2002 16. Various aerials of blast site STORYLINE: A convention to strengthen the fight against terrorism is expected to be signed by Southeast Asian leaders attending this weekend's summit of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in the central Philippines island of Cebu. "The purpose of the treaty is to provide peace and stability to our region and therefore any effort by terrorist groups to destabilise would be contrary to the purpose of the ASEAN east Asia summit which is to provide peace, stability and prosperity to the region," said Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Roberto Romulo. Romulo was speaking in December 2006, when the ASEAN summit was originally scheduled. The landmark pact, which will be called the ASEAN Convention on Counter-terrorism, would call on the ten-country ASEAN to forge a stronger front against terrorism by improving cooperation to hunt down and prosecute suspected militants and prevent attacks in a region regarded as a hotspot. "Of course, we have the ongoing arrangement and agreement between our countries in ASEAN to share intelligence information, to patrol our borders, our coast and to see to it that we do not give haven to terrorists. And to see to it that terrorists are apprehended and dealt with in our respective laws," Romulo said. Officials from other countries like Indonesia were also looking forward to the signing of the pact. Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines forged an anti-terrorism coalition a year after the September 11 2001 attacks on the US. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/06d385f0ed1de127d9ccb3603b7918e9 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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