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| Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Hassan Wiradjuda, from left, Lao Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Rais Yatim, Philippine’s Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo, Thailand’s Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, Myanmar’s Foreign Minister U Nyan Win, Brunei’s Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng, Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan link their hands for a group photo during an informal ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ meeting at a hotel in Cha Am city near Hua Hin, Phetchaburi province, Thailand Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. International human rights groups urged leaders of Southeast Asia gathering for their annual summit Thursday to press military-ruled Myanmar to end its rights abuses. |
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| Bangkok riot police and soldiers assemble inside razor wire at Thailand’s Government House Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, as they wait for demonstrators loyal to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to arrive. Thailand has been plagued by protests last year by rival groups of demonstrators who either support or oppose Thaksin, once one of the country’s richest men. He was forced from office in a 2006 military coup. |
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