Advantages Of Dispute Settlement Resolution

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When ASEAN first established by ASEAN Declaration, peaceful settlement of disputes was not being referred. The peaceful settlement of disputes or key mechanisms for dispute settlement was being developed later. The earliest mention of peaceful dispute settlement in ASEAN was in the 1971 Declaration on the Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality. During this Declaration, it includes the aims and objectives as well as the peaceful settlement of international disputes. During the Bali Concord II on 7 October 2003, The Bali Concord aims to improve the dispute settlement mechanism and find an innovative ways to increase its security as well as establish modalities for the ASEAN Security Community’ including in the area of post-conflict peacebuilding. …show more content…

The first weakness is the disputants can block the use of the dispute settlement mechanism as it can only be applied if the party to the dispute is agreed. Second, the other weakness is TAC procedure allows countries other than ASEAN member states to get involved in the dispute settlement process. Its means that the non-member states can able to watch and speak during the meetings. Lastly, in TAC, there is no explicit provision for arbitration or adjudication by a court or tribunal as it only involve good offices, mediation, inquiry and conciliation as the non-legal modes of dispute settlement. So, we can say that TAC mechanism is not a good mechanism that likely to be used to settle disputes between ASEAN member states as the process is too public. But, TAC can be used as an inspirational document, committing the High Contracting Parties to peaceful settlement of their …show more content…

EDSM can be said a mandatory dispute settlement process involving panels and an appellate body to assess disputes that cannot be settled through good offices, mediation or conciliation. In this protocol, a member state may be requested to take measures to bring itself into conformity with an ASEAN economic agreement and a complaining party may negotiate for compensation or suspend concessions towards the other party. In the 2007 ASEAN Charter, it provides a comprehensive framework for existing and future dispute settlement mechanisms in ASEAN. The charter also reinforces the TAC’s principle which stated that all dispute in ASEAN should be settle in a peaceful and timely manner through dialogue, consultation and negotiation. The charter later adds on the Chairman of ASEAN or the Secretary-General that may be called upon to offer their good offices, conciliation or mediation and mandates dispute settlement mechanisms for all fields of ASEAN

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