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
VIENTIANE, 26 OCTOBER 2020 — After two years of organising the Sustainable Tourism Solutions (STSE) on the ground in Laos, the event has expanded and made itself accessible worldwide by going online. The first ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Solution Expo (ASTSE) is the region’s leading specialised
HA NOI, 23 October 2020 – The General Statistics Office (GSO) Viet Nam, in collaboration with ASEANstats and supported by the ARISE Plus Project, convened in a virtual conference to launch the ASEAN SDG Indicators Baseline Report 2020 and the ASEAN Online Database for SDG Indicators.Dire
JAKARTA, 23 October 2020 – ASEAN Economic Ministers signed the ASEAN Trade in Services Agreement (ATISA) on 7 October 2020. The agreement affirms ASEAN’s commitment to free and open trade and regional economic integration, against the present multifaceted challenges of trade tensions,
JAKARTA,22 October 2020 – ASEAN education ministers shared their experiences in integrating technology in education and pledged to improve the resilience of ASEAN education systems at the “Conference on the Digital Transformation of Education Systems throughout ASEAN”.The online Conferenc
JAKARTA, 20 October 2020 – Today, the Secretariat hosted the 4th Forum of Entities Associated with ASEAN. This annual forum provides a platform for the ASEAN accredited Entities to bolster further cooperation with ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN sectoral bodies and ASEAN related centres, and among th
JAKARTA, 19 OCTOBER 2020 – ASEAN and Switzerland reaffirmed commitment to further strengthen their cooperation at the 5th Meeting of the ASEAN-Switzerland Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee held via videoconference on 16 October.The meeting noted with satisfaction the progress made in cooper
JAKARTA, 19 October 2020 – ASEAN and the Republic of Korea (ROK) reaffirmed commitment to enhance cooperation and further strengthen their partnership at the 7th ASEAN-ROK Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) meeting held via video-conference, today.The meeting welcomed the substantive progress mad
JAKARTA, 19 October 2020 – Representatives from ASEAN sectoral bodies on disaster management, health and social welfare development convened in a high-level roundtable on 14 October to discuss accelerated actions in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.The roundtable took place during the official l
JAKARTA, 19 October 2020 – Today, ASEAN Member States government officials, Dialogue Partners and other External Partners attended a regional workshop on “Development of ASEAN Database on Trade Routes and Framework for Enhancing Supply Chain Efficiency.”The virtual workshop is a project unde
JAKARTA, 16 October 2020 – The ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) organised a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with experts and researchers from various thinks tanks and research institutes, which took place from 15-16 October.Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Economic Community Dr. Aladdin D. Rillo
