- ABOUT ASEANThe 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, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.Menu
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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
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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.
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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
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Month: August 2019
Twenty-First Meeting of The Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution (21st MSC)
The Twenty-first Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution (21st MSC) was held on 6 August 2019 in Brunei Darussalam, and attended by Ministers/representatives responsible for the environment, for land, forest fires and haze, from Brunei Darussa
The 8th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Intersessional Ministerial Meeting
1. The Ministers from the 16 RCEP Participating Countries (RPCs) gathered in Beijing on 2-3 August 2019 for the 8th RCEP Intersessional Ministerial Meeting to review developments in the RCEP negotiations since the Ministers last met in March 2019. The Meeting was opened by H.E. Hu Chunhua, Vice Pr
Chairman’s Statement of the 9th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
1. The 9th East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was convened in Bangkok, Thailand on 2 August 2019. The Meeting was chaired by His Excellency Mr. Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand. Download the full statement
1. The 20th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held on 2 August 2019 in Bangkok, chaired by His Excellency Mr. Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand. Download the full statement
1. The Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 2 August 2019. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand. Download the full statement
The Special Meeting 01/2019 of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) was convened from 29 July to 1 August 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Prof. Amara Pongsapich, Representative of Thailand to the AICHR, and was attended by AICHR Representatives fr The ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference (PMC) 10+1 Sessions with ASEAN’s Dialogue Partners, namely Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America were held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 31 Jul Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the ASEAN Secretariat teamed up to launch a three-year disaster risk reduction plan that aims to strengthen the financial resiliency of ASEAN member states when natural disasters strike.Chairman’s Statement of the 20th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
Chairman’s Statement of the 26th ASEAN Regional Forum
Press Release Special Meeting 01/2019 of The AICHR
Chairman’s Statement of The ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference (PMC) 10+1 Sessions with The Dialogue Partners
Launched: ASEAN Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Phase 2
The ASEAN Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance P









