Such unwieldiness combines with only brief forays to Brussels by ministers to hand vast dollops of power to their officials, especially to the Committee of PermanentRepresentatives, better known by its French acronym, Coreper (see our next article).
Indeed, I have been touched and gratified by the numerous expressions of encouragement and support I have received from many governments -- most particularly from the African Group, whose PermanentRepresentatives last week issued a public appeal for me to stay on.
We acknowledged the consistent and productive engagement among the Committee of PermanentRepresentatives to ASEAN (CPR), the U.S. Mission to ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, and are committed to work together to boost the capacity of ASEAN to address regional challenges.