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
We, the Agriculture and Health Ministers and senior officials of Cambodia, China, Republic of Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Viet Nam, with the European Commission represented as an observer, met today in Bangkok, Thailand.
We exc
Distinguished members of the press,
We have just concluded the Bangkok Ministerial Meeting on Combating the Spread of Avian Influenza and I am pleased to inform you that our two hours and a half of deliberations have been substantive, constructive and most fruitful.
The fact that this meeting
JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT1. The ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) and the European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner met on 20 January 2004 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. H.E. Mr. Cham Prasidh, Minister of Commerce of Cambodia, and H.E. Mr. Pascal Lamy, European Union Trade Commissioner, co-chaired the Consulta
MEDIA STATEMENT
The Informal ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) Meeting was held on 19-20 January 2004 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to further discuss the measures for the integration of the eleven (11) priority sectors and to follow-up the decisions of the 9th ASEAN Summit in Bali, in particular those
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RICE VITAL FOR ASEAN
JAKARTA (13 Jan 2004) – Indonesia’s Minister for Agriculture Dr. Bungaran Saragih, said increasing public awareness of the importance of rice to food security, better nutrition, poverty alleviation and livelihood improvement will promote
The Governments of the Member Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Government of the People’s Republic of China, (hereinafter referred to as “the Parties”);
DESIRING to strengthen the friendly cooperation among the Parties;
PURSUANT to the Jo
1. We, the Ministers of ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea responsible for combating transnational crime, convened our First ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC+3) in Bangkok on 10 January 2004. The Meeting was preceded
We, the ASEAN Ministers overseeing the issues of transnational crime, gathered on 8th January 2004 in Bangkok, to strengthen our commitment to combat transnational crime affecting our region and to enhance cooperation towards this end.We welcome the Declaration of the ASEAN Concord II (Bali Concord
The Governments of the Member States of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN):
RECALLING the ASEAN Declaration on Heritage Parks and Reserves signed by Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand on 29 November 1984;
RECOGNIZING that Cambodia, Lao
Recalling the Declaration of ASEAN Concord II (Bali Concord II) to establish an ASEAN Community for the purpose of ensuring durable peace, stability and shared prosperity with a view to realising an ASEAN Community that is open, dynamic and resilient;
Emphasising that sustainable development could
