" In a July 1997 essay, Anwar advocated that ASEAN should cast aside its long-cherished principle of non-interference and embrace "constructive intervention.

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The organisation's guiding principle, non-interference, had served it so well in the tense, mutually suspicious days of 1967.

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This would recognise that moral imperatives might sometimes override the principle of non-interference in a state's internal affairs.

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One reason is the club's hallowed principle of non-interference in its members' affairs.

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