US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) attends the official group photograph for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) summit on the resort island of Phuket, in southern Thailand on July 23, 2009 a along with (front row L-R) Foreign Ministers Australian Stephen Smith, Thailand's Kasit Piromya, Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, Timor Leste Foreign Minister Zacarias Albano de Costa, Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, Singapore George Yeo, and (Back row L-R) Laos Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysia Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win, New Zealand's Murray McCulley, Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Philippine Foreign Minister Alberto Romulo, South Korea Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan andew Guinea's Samuel Abal. (Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L), ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan (2nd R), East Timor's Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres (L) and Thailand's Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya toast during their lunch at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial meeting in Phuket July 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Thai Foreign Ministry/Handout)

Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith (C) and his Thail counterpart Kasit Piromya (R) present an agreement book to ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial meeting in Phuket July 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)