Monthly Archives: July 2019

Your Excellency General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, Excellencies the ASEAN Foreign Ministers and the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, To my ASEAN colleagues—the 10 ASEAN Foreign Ministers, and all other distinguished Ministers and Guest, I wish to extend the warm greetings from the people of Thailand. We [...]

Excellencies the Foreign Ministers and the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Honoured Guests, It is my great pleasure and honour to welcome all of you to the Opening Ceremony of the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and Related Meetings today. It was in 1967 that the ASEAN journey began -- when the Foreign Ministers of five ASEAN [...]

We, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), met on 31 July 2019 at the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) in Bangkok. We underlined the need to further strengthen cooperation and advance our partnership to ensure sustainability in all dimensions for ASEAN amidst the rapid changes in Southeast Asia and [...]

WE, the ASEAN Youth Ministers and Heads of Delegation of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of [...]

WE, the ASEAN Youth Ministers and Heads of Delegation of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, gathered together [...]

The Thirteenth ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) was successfully convened in Bangkok, Thailand on 11 July 2019. At its conclusion, the Ministers adopted and signed the Joint Declaration of the ASEAN Defence Ministers on Sustainable Security. Download the full Statement here.