Question

Which of the following declaration was signed by five countries to establish ASEAN?
1. Declaration of Paris
2. Bangkok declaration
3. Argentine declaration
4. Texas declaration

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Bangkok declaration

The correct answer is Bangkok declaration.

• The Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand.
• With the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
• The ASEAN is an economic union comprising 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilities economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration among its members and other countries in Asia.
• The ten countries of ASEAN are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.
• The Secretary-General of ASEAN - Lim Jock Hoi.
• ASEAN headquarter - Jakarta, Indonesia.

Paris Declaration

• The Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law of 16 April 1856 was a diplomatic policy agreed to by 55 nations.
• Paris Declaration is written by France and Great Britain, its primary goal was to abolish privateering, whereby a belligerent party gave formal permission for armed privately owned ships to seize enemy vessels.
   

Argentine declaration

• The Independence of Argentina was declared on July 9, 1816, by the Congress of Tucumán.
• The congressmen who were assembled in Tucumán declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America, which is one of the official names of the Argentine Republic.

Texas declaration

• The Declaration of November 7, 1835, passed by the Consultation announced that the Texan war against Mexico principally intended to restore the Mexican Constitution of 1824, abrogated by the actions of President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and to achieve separate Mexican statehood for Texas.
• The members of the Consultation had hoped to attract popular support for the Texan cause from the other Mexican states.
• The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution.
• It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and was formally signed the next day after mistakes were noted in the text.