The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984, followed by Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, Cambodia on 30 April 1999, and Timor-Leste on 25 October 2025 making up what is today the eleven Member States of ASEAN.
ASEAN organs always strive to achieve ASEAN’s goals and objectives, the Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat shall be functioned as coordinating Secretariat to help facilitate effective decision-making withing and amongst ASEAN bodies. In addition, each Member State shall appoint a Permanent Representative to liaise with Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat
ASEAN shall develop friendly relations and mutually beneficial dialogues, cooperation and partnerships with countries and sub-regional, regional and international organisations and institutions. This includes external partners, ASEAN entities, human rights bodies, non-ASEAN Member States Ambassadors to ASEAN, ASEAN committees in third countries and international organisations, as well as international / regional organisations.
The rodmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015) was declared by the leaders in 2009. The ASEAN Community, anchored on three community pillars: Political-Security Community, Economic Community, Socio-Cultural Community was launched in 2015. The ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together was introduced in 2015 as a Post-2015 Vision. It comprises the ASEAN Community Vision 2025, the ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025, the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984, followed by Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, Cambodia on 30 April 1999, and Timor-Leste on 25 October 2025 making up what is today the eleven Member States of ASEAN.
ASEAN organs always strive to achieve ASEAN’s goals and objectives, the Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat shall be functioned as coordinating Secretariat to help facilitate effective decision-making withing and amongst ASEAN bodies. In addition, each Member State shall appoint a Permanent Representative to liaise with Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat
ASEAN shall develop friendly relations and mutually beneficial dialogues, cooperation and partnerships with countries and sub-regional, regional and international organisations and institutions. This includes external partners, ASEAN entities, human rights bodies, non-ASEAN Member States Ambassadors to ASEAN, ASEAN committees in third countries and international organisations, as well as international / regional organisations.
The rodmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015) was declared by the leaders in 2009. The ASEAN Community, anchored on three community pillars: Political-Security Community, Economic Community, Socio-Cultural Community was launched in 2015. The ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together was introduced in 2015 as a Post-2015 Vision. It comprises the ASEAN Community Vision 2025, the ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025, the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025
1. Officials of the 16 governments participating in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the 10 ASEAN Member States and its Free Trade Agreement Partners (Australia, China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand) – today met in Brunei Darussalam to start detaile
Highlights of 22nd Summit in Brunei in Latest “ASEAN Today”
The march toward an integrated region was the major agenda item at the 22nd ASEAN Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan. And the latest edition of “ASEAN Today” captures that issue and other highlights of the leaders’ gathering.
H.E. Ms. Akira Matsu, Member of the House of Councillors – the upper house of the National Diet of Japan – called on H.E. Mr. Le Luong Minh, the Secretary-General of ASEAN, last week at the ASEAN Secretariat.
SG Minh welcomed Ms. Matsu and her delegation to the ASEAN Secretariat, which he sa
The ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue took place last week in Washington D.C., where Senior Officials from all ten ASEAN Member States, the ASEAN Secretariat and the United States met to discuss pressing regional issues across ASEAN’s political-security, economic, and socio-cultural pillars.
The annual dial
H.E. Wang Yi, the newly appointed Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China today called on the Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Le Luong Minh at the ASEAN Secretariat.
During their meeting, SG Minh and Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchanged views on a wide range of topics, including ways
As ASEAN moves towards the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, healthcare remains a high priority sector to be integrated across the region and vital to successful integration of the sector is the harmonization and efficiency of its regulations. To boost the capability of ASEAN medical device r
H.E Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN and H.E. Shindo Yoshitaka, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan discussed on the current and future activities of ASEAN-Japan cooperation in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and disaster management communication and Ja
H.E. Mr Donald Bobiash, Ambassador of Canada to ASEAN, presented his Letter of Credentials to H.E. Mr Le Luong Minh, Secretary-General of ASEAN, yesterday at the ASEAN Secretariat.
Ambassador Bobiash expressed his honour to be accredited as Ambassador of Canada to ASEAN. He reaffirmed that relati
JOINT STATEMENTNINTH BRUNEI DARUSSALAM – INDONESIA – MALAYSIA – PHILIPPINES EAST ASEAN GROWTH AREA SUMMIT(9th BIMP-EAGA SUMMIT)25 April 2013, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
1. We, the Leaders of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philip
JOINT STATEMENTNINTH BRUNEI DARUSSALAM – INDONESIA – MALAYSIA – PHILIPPINES EAST ASEAN GROWTH AREA SUMMIT(9th BIMP-EAGA SUMMIT)25 April 2013, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
1. We, the Leaders of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philip
