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
Priority Areas of Cooperation
Recognising the threat of cross-border transnational crime, the ASEAN Political Security Community Blueprint 2025 encourages ASEAN to strengthen cooperation on border management in accordance with respective domestic laws, rules, regulations and policies and to jointl
Overview
The dynamics of globalisation has affected the way states have approached borders, issues regarding borders and the subsequent border management that cuts across multiple issues and are deeply complexed. The region is facing an increasing arrays of transnational threats that mandate greater
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Overview
Publications and Related Links to The Sector ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug Matters Key Documents ASEAN Plan of Action in Combating Transnational Crime (2016-2025) Terms of Refer Major Sectoral Bodies/Committees Priority Areas of Cooperation Overview Publication and Related Links ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime Key Documents ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children Declarations
Publications
Key Documents
Plan of Actions
Major Sectoral Bodies/Committees
Recognising the impending threats of arms smuggling, ASEAN included arms smuggling as one of ten areas of cooperation of the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC). Since its establishment in 2017, the SOMTC Working Group on Arms Smuggling serves a
Priority Areas of Cooperation
The ASEAN Plan of Action in Combating Transnational Crime serves as a policy guidance to promote cooperation in this area. Cooperation in addressing arms smuggling is referred to in the SOMTC Work Programme to Implement the ASEAN Plan of Action to Combat Transnational C
Overview
Cooperation on combating illicit drugs can be traced back to the Declaration of ASEAN Concord issued by the Heads of Government in 1976 which called for “the intensification of cooperation among member states as well as with the relevant international bodies in the prevention and eradicat
Publications and Related Links
Relevant ASEAN Sectoral Bodies
Key Documents
Conventions
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