Kuala Lumpur, July 9 -- The 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM-58) and related meetings opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 9. In his opening speech, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that overcoming difficulties and challenges, ASEAN has persevered and preserved peace and expanded prosperity in ways few regions can equal. The bloc did so by nurturing a habit of cooperation, a willingness to keep engaging even when the past was difficult and the present testing. "Our region's strength therefore lies not in the absence of tension, but in our commitment to manage it through mutual respect, continuous dialogue and the search for consensus. That is the ASEAN way - it must remain our guide," the PM affirmed. ...