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fulfilling their purposes.
2. The second challenge to Southeast Asia is to strengthen demo-
cratic institutions so that its different peoples may live in
freedom and chart their own path to development in har-
mony with their culture and values.
3. The third challenge to Southeast Asia is to use its own re-
sources more effectively to accelerate its development, giv-
ing priority to meeting the basic needs of its people, and
freeing them from poverty, ignorance and fear.
4. The fourth challenge to Southeast Asia is to enable its people
to realize the full potential of their talents and creativity,
and to develop self confidence to mobilize their contribu-
tion to the progress of their societies.
5. The fifth challenge to the countries of Southeast Asia is to
pursue their development with concern for the protection
the natural environment so that it may sustain the present
and future development.
6. The sixth and final challenge to the countries of Southeast
Asia is to take advantage of their unity and solidarity in
efforts to revitalize regional economic cooperation together
with the Northeast Asia region countries to build a new South-
east Asia community as a whole.
As the countries of Southeast Asia different from another,
they will have to take different routes to the common goal of
economic development. They differ in, for example, the level
of national income and its distribution, the quantity and qual-
ity of infrastructure and productivity, capacity, level of educa-
tion and training and in many aspects of political and social
life. In addition, a country’s culture, homogeneity and hetero-
geneity, and history will affect the priorities and the speed of
movement towards the common goal.
Furthermore, the crisis which is affecting the large major-
ity of Southeast Asian countries makes it necessary that past
economic development strategies should be reexamined. The

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