WE, the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States (U.S.) gather on the occasion of the 13th ASEAN-U.S. Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 26 October 2025;

RECOGNISING that our cooperation has long been indispensable to ASEAN, to the United States, and to the broader region, beginning with our first dialogue, in Manila in 1977, and deepening with the United States’ signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia; the establishment of a U.S. Mission to ASEAN, in Jakarta; the founding of the ASEAN-U.S. Summit; the first ASEAN-U.S. Special Summit; and the establishment of the ASEAN-U.S. Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP);