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
Jakarta, 7 July 2021 – Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoi and the Federation of Japanese Chambers of Commerce and Industry in ASEAN (FJCCIA) attended the 13th Dialogue organised virtually today.This dialogue, held annually between the Secretary-General of ASEAN and FJCCIA, dem
PHNOM PENH, 7 July 2021 — Representatives and senior officials of national mine action authorities, donor agencies and parties, convened in the ‘’Achieving Sustainable and Inclusive Development in Landmine/Explosive Remnant of War (ERW)-Affected Countries’’ workshop and promise
JAKARTA, 6 July 2021 – The 25th ASEAN-Republic of Korea (ROK) Dialogue held virtually today reaffirmed the commitments of both sides to further enhance cooperation and strengthen partnership.The Senior officials of ASEAN and the ROK took note of the progress made in ASEAN-ROK cooperatio
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, visited the ASEAN Secretariat and met with Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Lim Jock Hoi, today.
The Special ASEAN-Russia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Jakarta on 6 July 2021 in view of 30 years of ASEAN-Russia relations and 25 years of the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership in 2021 and to follow up last year’s Special Foreign Ministers’&nb
BANGKOK, 5 July 2021 – The “EU-ASEAN High-Performance Computing (HPC) Virtual School 2021: System Design and HPC Applications” started 5 July and will take place until 9 July.Hosted by the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), the Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC),
JAKARTA, 30 June 2021 – Today, ASEAN Secretariat conducted an online workshop on Circular Economy. The workshop gathered relevant sectoral bodies to discuss the draft Framework for Circular Economy for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which is one of the priority economic deliverable
JAKARTA, 30 June 2021 – The opening of the trial for Aung San Suu Kyi tops the June 2021 edition of “ASEAN Today.”Raissa Chentami of The Indonesia Channel co-anchors the program from Jakarta with Raymond Goh of Malaysia’s TV3 in Kuala Lumpur.They also report on Singapore’s “Buy Now, P
JAKARTA, 30 June 2021- This month, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia established Project Portcullis 2021, the ASEAN-Australia Task Force on Illicit Tobacco to combat the smuggling of illicit tobacco in a month of action.Throughout June, participating customs
On 28 June, 2021, ASEAN-Russia Consultations of the High Representatives for Security Issues were held via videoconference.The Consultation took place in an open and friendly atmosphere, with participation of track 2 from ASEAN Member Countries and discussed security issues in the Asia-Pacific regi
