ASEAN’s Original Five
Jun 07, 2018
4 minutes
PHOTO © DR THANAT KHOMAN: THE WIT & WISDOM OF THE LEADING ASEAN FOUNDER, SIAM RENAISSANCE PUBLISHING, THAILAND
“Another principle to which we anchored our faith was that our cooperation should deal with non-military matters. Attempts were made by some to launch us on the path of forming a military alliance. We resisted; wisely and correctly we stuck to our resolve to... remain safely on economic ground”
Thanat Khoman
Thanat Khoman (THAILAND)
“Mostly I observed… that he would like the people in this region to be happy, to be safe, and to be strong,” notes Thanat’s nephew, Amarin Khoman.
Born in Bangkok to a prominent Sino-Thai family, Thanat Khoman attended law school in Paris before joining the foreign service. In his time at the embassy in Japan,
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