ASEAN summit begins

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MCOT POOL 1. Wide of people entering ASEAN summit venue at the Thai beach resort of Cha-Am 2. Delegates approaching doors 3. ASEAN Secretary-General, Surin Pitsuwan, arriving AP TELEVISION 4. The ten leaders of ASEAN walking together to the opening ceremony MCOT POOL 5. Wide of hall 6. Abhisit Vejjajiva and Laos' Prime Minister, Bouasone Bouphavanh, leading others along corridor towards hall 7. Leaders entering ceremony hall 8. Wide of hall, audience sitting down 9. Pan across ASEAN leaders 10. Wide of hall 11. ASEAN leaders and audience standing for new ASEAN anthem, "The ASEAN Way" 12. Close-up of conductor, pull out to wide of orchestra and choir performing the anthem 13. Abhisit walking up to podium 14. Wide of Abhsit on stage AP TELEVISION 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai Prime Minister: "ASEAN will put people first - in its vision, in its policies, and in its action plans. That is why we have chosen the name 'ASEAN charter for ASEAN people,' for this summit. It underlines the fundamental core of our philosophy of making the people the ultimate beneficiaries of the ASEAN community." AGENCY POOL 16. Wide of meeting between ASEAN leaders and members of civil society 17. Close-up of Cambodian Prime Minister, Hun Sen 18. Mid-shot of Abhisit 19. Wide of meeting AP TELEVISION 20. Members of the civil society delegation that attended the meeting 21. Member of delegation talking to media 22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Soe Aung, National Council of the Union of Burma: "This is a plain, complete threat to the civil society and then which is totally contradict(ing) to what ASEAN is going to be ready with this charter in the future so this is not acceptable to the civil society." 23. Wide of media gathered around the civil society delegates 24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Debbie Stothard, ALTSEAN (Alternative Asean Network) Burma: "If those governments cannot bear to be in the same room as civil society from their countries, it's a very clear indication of what they are doing to their own people in their own countries." 25. Pan across leaders linking arms on stage during photo opportunity 26. Wide of leaders on stage STORYLINE: The leaders of ten Asian nations convened in Thailand on Saturday for the official opening of the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Preceded by two days of preliminary meetings, the summit officially opened in the resort town of Cha-Am, 120 miles (200 kilometres) south of the capital Bangkok, with a ceremony marked by the international debut of ASEAN's new anthem, "The ASEAN Way." In his opening address Thai Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, stressed that "ASEAN will put people first - in its vision, in its policies, and in its action plans." But two hours earlier, civil society representatives from Myanmar and Cambodia were barred from a scheduled meeting with the bloc's leaders, delegates said. Khin Ohnmar, one of the Myanmar representatives, is a prominent activist who was awarded Sweden's Anna Lindh human rights prize last year. The activist said she was informed that if any Myanmar representative attended the meeting it would be cancelled. The rare, 30-minute interface between other civil society representatives and the ASEAN leaders went ahead without the Myanmar and Cambodian delegates who were invited to meet later with the Thai prime minister. Speaking outside after the meeting, Debbie Stothard, a representative of ALTSEAN (Alternative Asean Network) Burma, said that if those governments could not "bear to be in the same room as civil society from their countries, it's a very clear indication of what they are doing to their own people in their own countries." You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/20ed84c59e796e9a507c40185a9d6183 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork