COOPERA
TION IN THE PROMOTION
COOPERATION
AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
39. ASEAN Member States share a common interest in and
commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights
and fundamental freedoms which shall be achieved through,
inter alia, cooperation with one another as well as with relevant
national, regional and international institutions/organisations,
in accordance with the ASEAN Charter.
40. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for
any State, group or person any right to perform any act aimed
at undermining the purposes and principles of ASEAN, or at
the destruction of any of the rights and fundamental freedoms
set forth in this Declaration and international human rights
instruments to which ASEAN Member States are parties.
Adopted by the Heads of State/Government of ASEAN Member
States at Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this Eighteenth Day of November
in the Year Two Thousand and Twelve, in one single original copy in
the English Language.
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