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
Your Excellency,Your Royal Highness,Distinguished Colleagues,Ladies and Gentlemen,On behalf of my ASEAN Colleagues, I wish to extend our warm welcome to Your Excellency and to the distinguished members of your delegation to this annual session of the Post Ministerial Conferences (PMC) between ASEAN
Your Excellency Foreign Minister Dato’ Seri Syed Hamid Bin Syed Jaafar Albar,Your Excellency Foreign Minister Ali Alatas,Fellow Colleagues,As mankind has come to the threshold of the new century, we will soon be closing the annals of China-ASEAN relations in the 20th century and opening a new cha
H.E. Mr. Masahiko KoumuraMinister of Foreign Affairs of JapanH.E. Mr. Win AungMinister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar,Distinguished Participant from ASEAN countries and Japan1. First of all, on behalf of our ASEAN colleagues and in my own name, I would like. to extend my warm welcome to Your Excelle
Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,During our meeting last year, we stressed the importance of the EU-ASEAN Partenariat and decided to advance in the implementation of the Singapore Ministerial Declaration. Our objective was to firstly hold the Joint Co-operation Committee. This, we succeeded. Let m
Secretary SIAZON, Foreign Minister HOR, ASEAN colleagues:It is a pleasure to be here today and to take another step in the long, historic and warm relationship between Canada and ASEAN, in this, the 22nd year of our dialogue relationship. If I have one message to leave with you today, it is that Ca
Mr. Chairman,Excellencies, Dear Colleagues,Ladies and Gentlemen,It is a great honour and pleasure for me to attend for the first time the PMC 10+1 Dialogue session between ASEAN and Canada.This dialogue session offers a good opportunity for us to learn the developments of the ASEAN-Canada relations
Your Excellency, Minister Lloyd Axworthy,Distinguished Members of the Canadian and ASEAN Delegations,Ladies and Gentlemen,On behalf of our host and my ASEAN colleagues, I wish to extend my sincere welcome to Minister Lloyd Axworthy and his delegation to this year’s ASEAN-Canada Post Ministerial C
Opening StatementMr Alexander Downer MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
I welcome this opportunity to meet with my ASEAN counterparts and colleagues. Australia values greatly its close and long-standing relationship with ASEAN. The past two years have severely challenged the resolve
Mr. Chairman,Your Royal Highnesses,Distinguished Colleagues,Ladies and Gentlemen,Over the past two days, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers have engaged in close review and consultation over many important issues, both in plenary and at the Retreat. We have drawn inspiration from Prime Minister Goh Chok T
Your Royal Highnesses,Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen,1. In his opening address yesterday, my Prime Minister drew our attention to the new regional and international context for ASEAN’s next phase of evolution and challenged us to face up to both the problems and opportunities. I am not going t
