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 26 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 26 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
Senior officials from ASEAN and Japan met in Bandar Seri Begawan yesterday for the 32nd ASEAN-Japan Forum. They reaffirmed the importance of the long-standing partnership between both sides. Noting the present uncertain regional and international developments, ASEAN and Japan agreed to further stren
The ASEAN Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (DRFI) Partnership Forum was organised on 3 March to be a platform to share experiences and best practices on risk assessment, modeling and pooling; and identify other key areas for collaboration in the area of risk financing and risk transfer.
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ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General for Socio-Cultural Community Vongthep Arthakaivalvatee met with Marta Santos Pais, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Violence against Children at the ASEAN Secretariat on 1 March. They had a dialogue with ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protectio
Through the Vietnam National University, Vietnam commenced this year’s ASEAN in Today’s World Programme (AsTW) by welcoming 33 students from seven ASEAN Member States and Japan who undertake undergraduate and graduate programmes in various universities in ASEAN and beyond such as Japan and Austr
In celebration of International Women’s Day and in light of 50 years of ASEAN, the ASEAN Women’s Circle (AWC) of Jakarta held its Installation Ceremony today at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta with the theme “Bold and Gold for Change”. The ceremony marked the official handover of the AWC pr
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, 3 March 2017 – Senior officials from ASEAN and Japan met in Bandar Seri Begawan yesterday for the 32nd ASEAN-Japan Forum. They reaffirmed the importance of the long-standing partnership between both sides. Noting the present uncertain regional and international developme
