Beneath the sheaves is the legend ASEAN in blue. There are set on a field of yellow encircled by a blue border. Brown stands for strength and stabillty, yellow for prosperity and blue for yhe spirit of cordianlity in which ASEAN afairs are conducted. When ASEAN celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 1997, the sheaves on the logo had increased to ten - reprwsenting all ten countries of Southeast Asia and reflecting the colors of the flags of all of them. In a very real sense, ASEAN and Southeast Asia will be one and the same, just as the founders had envisioned.