‘Asean needs to develop solutions to resolve disputes’

SINGAPORE: Asean needs to deve­lop a more comprehensive way to resolve disputes, said senior Singa­pore diplomat and former Asean chief Ong Keng Yong.

These include reviewing and making recommendations to im­prove a 2004 protocol, which covered enhanced dispute settlement mechanisms to resolve economic disputes, said the former secretary-general of Asean from 2003 to 2008.