The Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Surin Pitsuwan on May 4 called for coordinated efforts to prevent conflicts spreading far and wide.
Pitsuwan delivered the statement at a ceremony held to launch the World Development Report 2011 themed "Conflict, Security and Development" by the World Bank (WB) at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia.
”All of us need to contain violence. If not, it will spill over to neighboring countries and certainly engulfing the entire region,” Pitsuwan was quoted by China’s Xinhua News Agency as saying.
The bloc’s chief also cited a statement of WB President Robert Zoellick, saying a civil conflict cost average developing country roughly 30 years of GDP growth, and that finding effective ways to help societies escape new outbursts or repeated cycles of violence is critical for global security and development.
Zoellick hoped that the report could be a roadmap for the global community to work together to tame the conflicts.
”All of us need to contain violence. If not, it will spill over to neighboring countries and certainly engulfing the entire region,” Pitsuwan was quoted by China’s Xinhua News Agency as saying.
The bloc’s chief also cited a statement of WB President Robert Zoellick, saying a civil conflict cost average developing country roughly 30 years of GDP growth, and that finding effective ways to help societies escape new outbursts or repeated cycles of violence is critical for global security and development.
Zoellick hoped that the report could be a roadmap for the global community to work together to tame the conflicts.
VOVNews/VNA
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