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, 15 December 2016 – Over 100 contestants participated in the second ASEAN Youth Video Contest which aimed to engage talented youth across the region in promoting ASEAN Community through social videos. Supported by the ASEAN-U.S. PROGRESS, the ASEAN Secretariat and the ASEAN Foundatio
BUSAN, 14 November 2016 – The 3rd Seminar on the ROK-ASEAN Socio-Cultural Partnership was held on 11 November in Busan, Republic of Korea. The Seminar aimed to highlight the importance of socio-cultural partnership as a backbone of the ASEAN-Korea relations and the ASEAN community d
1. The Ministers from the 16 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Participating Countries (RPCs) assembled for the 2nd RCEP Intersessional Ministerial Meeting held from 3 to 4 November 2016 in Cebu, Philippines. The Ministers recalled the instruction from Leaders, as stated in the Joi
BANGKOK, 3 November 2016 – A training course to enhance border security across Southeast Asia was held under the framework of the EU-ASEAN Migration and Border Management Programme II. Hosted by the Royal Thai Police, the nine-day course on integrated border management aimed to build the cap
SIEM REAP, 1 November 2016 – ASEAN and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with UL, a global safety science organisation, announced Dr. Worajit Setthapun of Thailand as the winner of the 2016 ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women on 28 October. She was honoured
JAKARTA, 31 October 2016 – Germany, conferred the status of Development Partner of ASEAN in July 2016, will work with ASEAN to further strengthen the partnership. Michael Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, the new Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to ASEAN, conveyed this message during
VIENTIANE, 19 October 2016 – The ASEAN Connectivity Coordinating Committee (ACCC) held a consultation on ASEAN Connectivity with Dialogue Partners, namely Australia, Canada, China, European Union, India, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and the United States of America, to socialise th
KUALA LUMPUR, 5 October 2016 – ASEAN youth met in Kuala Lumpur on 22-23 September 2016 to exchange their views on human rights issues such as abortion, child marriages, climate change, the rights of migrant workers and the right to peace.
Their meeting was part of the Youth Debate on Huma
PASAY, 27 September 2016 – To help small business development in the region, ASEAN, the Philippines Department of Trade and Industry’s Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprise Development, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided training to a group of 30 business support
JAKARTA, 19 September 2016 – ASEAN Secretariat, in cooperation with the Mission of the People’s Republic of China to ASEAN and the United Nations Development Programme hosted the Symposium on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development “Leave No One Behind” today.
The s
