INSTRUMENT OF EXTENSION OF THE

ASEAN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON THE TRANS-ASEAN GAS PIPELINE PROJECT

WHEREAS the ASEAN Memorandum  of  Understanding  (MOU) on the Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipelines Project was done at Bali, Indonesia on 5 July  2002;

WHEREAS the MOU entered into force on 21 May 2004, and shall remain in force, pursuant to Article VIII (4) of the MOU, until 20 May 2014;

WHEREAS Article VIII (6) of the MOU provides that the MOU may be extended beyond its period of validity with the agreement of all Member States;

WHEREAS the Member States, at the 29th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) held on  20  September  2011  in Jerudong, Brunei Darussalam, agreed to  extend  the  validity  of the MOU for an additional  period of  10 (ten)  years;

NOW, therefore, the Governments of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, 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, hereby expressed their consent to extend the MOU until 20 May 2024, unless earlier terminated by the Parties pursuant to Article VIII (6) of the MOU;

DONE at Bali, Indonesia, this Twenty-Fifth Day of September in the Year Two Thousand and Thirteen, in a single original copy in the English Language.

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