The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations opened their annual meeting in Singapore on Monday.

The four-day meeting will address a territorial dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, discuss ways to help overcome damage done by a cyclone in Myanmar and democracy itself.
The ASEAN ministerial meeting will also seek to adopt a charter.

The foreign ministers of ten ASEAN member countries will sit together with their counterparts from China, Korea and Japan to discuss a regional free trade agreement on Tuesday.

A forum on regional security will be held on Thursday to tackle the North Korean nuclear problem with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in attendance.