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ASEAN breaks deadlock on human rights

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July 30, 2007 | 9:11pm

MANILA (AFP) - Southeast Asian nations broke the deadlock on creating a new regional human rights body that had been opposed by Myanmar but left the details to be worked out later, diplomats said on Monday.

With just a few months to go before the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopts its first-ever charter in November, the 10-nation bloc had been at odds over the move.

But Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, whose country is hosting this week's ASEAN meetings, said there was a breakthrough and insisted that the controversial measure would be in the final charter.

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