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
MANILA, 3 May 2018 – Senior Officials from ASEAN and Canada reaffirmed their commitment to deepen partnership through closer cooperation and collaboration at the 15th ASEAN-Canada Dialogue in Manila, the Philippines today.
The Dialogue was co-chaired by Undersecretary Enrique A. Manalo, SO
JAKARTA, 23 April 2018 – ASEAN and the Republic of Korea (ROK) reaffirmed commitment to further strengthen their strategic partnership and enhance cooperation following an Ambassador-level meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta on 20 April.
At the meeting, both sides reviewed the imp
JAKARTA, 12 April 2018 – Senior Officials from ASEAN and New Zealand, meeting at the 25th ASEAN-New Zealand Dialogue in Jakarta yesterday, reaffirmed their strong ties and agreed to explore opportunities to further strengthen the strategic partnership.
The officials noted the good pr
JAKARTA, 12 April 2018 – ASEAN and Canada reaffirmed commitment to strengthen their partnership for mutual benefit, building on the momentum of the 40th Anniversary of their dialogue relations in 2017. This was expressed at the 6th ASEAN-Canada Joint Cooperation Committee Meet
JAKARTA, 11 April 2018 – ASEAN and the UN reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen their partnership at the interface between the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR) and UN Senior Officials held yesterday at the ASEAN Secretariat. The meeting was co-chaired by Singa
JAKARTA, 10 April 2018 – The Secretariats of ASEAN and the United Nations held a regional Secretariat-to-Secretariat (S2S) Meeting at ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta yesterday, reaffirming their commitment to enhance cooperation.
The S2S Meeting reaffirmed the need for strong en
BANGKOK, 1 December 2017 – Members of the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Education (SOM-ED), representatives of Japan and presidents of leading engineering education universities in ASEAN and Japan gathered in Bangkok today to sign the cooperative framework agreement for the Fourth Phase
VIENTIANE, 31 October 2017 – ASEAN and the European Union (EU) Support to Higher Education in ASEAN Region (SHARE) Programme commenced the seventh in a series of SHARE Policy Dialogues with the theme “Capitalising on ASEAN: Internationalisation Strategies for CLMV Universities”. Th
JAKARTA, 27 October 2017 – The year 2017 marks a three-fold anniversary: 50 years of ASEAN, 40 years of ASEAN-EU relations and 30 years of ERASMUS+, the EU’s student mobility scheme. In this relation, the regional office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Embassy Ja
JAKARTA, 11 October 2017— Portugal expressed its keen interest in strengthening cooperative relationship with ASEAN and ASEAN Member States, including through the ASEAN-EU framework. This message was conveyed by Ambassador of Portugal to ASEAN, Rui Fernando Sucena Do Carmo during the presentation
