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, 11 September 2026 – The 16th Consultation Meeting of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Task Force and ASEAN Partners took place today at the ASEAN Secretariat/ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta.
The meeting brought together IAI Task Force Members from all ASEAN Member States,
The Tenth ASEAN-China Health Ministers Meeting was held on 11 September 2026 in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and UNITED under the theme, “Healthy ASEAN: Together
Towards Equitable, Future-Ready Health Systems”, and the topic, “Advancing Resilient,
Inclusive and Sustainable Health Systems for a Sha
The Third ASEAN-Republic of Korea Health Ministers Meeting was held on 11
September 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in conjunction with the 17th ASEAN
Health Ministers Meeting (17th AHMM).
NOTED with satisfaction the good progress in the first year of implementation of the
Plan of Action (POA) t
RECALLING the Special Video Conference of the Health Ministers of ASEAN and
the United States in Enhancing Cooperation on COVID-19 Response on 30 April
2020, the ASEAN-U.S. Special Session Health Ministerial Meeting on 15 May 2022 in
Bali, Indonesia, the ASEAN-U.S. Special Session Health Ministeri
RECALLING with satisfaction that Japan and ASEAN have developed a longstanding
and close partnership for over 50 years since the establishment of
dialogue relations in 1973, covering political, economic and socio-cultural areas;
RECOGNISING that, in the ASEAN Health Sector, cooperation has been s
JAKARTA, 11 September 2026 — Marking the 20th anniversary of the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF), a three-day interactive public exhibition titled “JAIF at 20 Years – A Time Travel Exhibition” is being held from 11-13 September 2026 at the Main Atrium of Plaza Senayan in Jak
The Seventeenth Health Ministers Meeting was held on 10 September 2026 in KualaLumpur, Malaysia.
RECALLING the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future, adopted at the 46th ASEAN Summit on 26 May 2025, which formally adopted the ASEAN Community Vision 2045 on “Resilient,
The 11th ASEAN Plus Three Health Ministers Meeting was held on 10 September
2026 in Kuala Lumpur, in conjunction with the 17th ASEAN Health Ministers
Meeting (17th AHMM).
ACKNOWLEDGING the pivotal role of ASEAN Plus Three health development
cooperation in realising the objectives and key performa
On the margins of the M360 ASEAN, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, on 10 September 2026, met with Director General of the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), Vivek Badrinath, to deepen partnership with GSMA in support of ASEAN’s exp
JAKARTA, 10 September 2026 – ASEAN and Norway reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the ASEAN-Norway Sectoral Dialogue Partnership at the 11th ASEAN-Norway Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee (AN-JSCC) Meeting, held today at the ASEAN Headquarters/ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta.
The
