WE, the Peoples of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of
Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), Malaysia, the Republic of the
Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the
Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, the Member States of
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on the occasion of the 15th
Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD);