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
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JAKARTA, 27 July 2021 –The ASEAN Secretariat, together with the East Asia Business Council (EABC), hosted the “Unlocking RCEP for Business: Trade in Goods” webinar on 26 July.The session is the first in a series of webinars on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that w
SEOUL, 25 JANUARY 2021 – The ASEAN-Korea Youth Academic Webinar, held by the ASEAN-Korea Centre, is set to take place on 27 January at 2PM (KST). The awarding ceremony of the 2020 ASEAN-Korea Academic Essay Contest winners and presentation of the winning essays will be held during the e
PHNOM PENH, 24 November 2020 – The ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) and the United States (U.S.) Department of State/the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh co-organised a regional webinar on Protecting ASEAN Communities through Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) Implementation Amidst the
“Crisis is the best time to transform challenges into opportunity,” shares Louise Mabulo, founder of the Cacao Project, to participants of the interactive ASEAN Youth and COVID-19: Success Stories and the Way Forward’ webinar series held on 28 September.
As a business champion, Louise provided
JAKARTA, 30 September 2020 – “Crisis is the best time to transform challenges into opportunity,” shares Louise Mabulo, founder of the Cacao Project, to participants of the interactive ASEAN Youth and COVID-19: Success Stories and the Way Forward’ webinar series held on 28 September.As a bu
SEOUL, 3 SEPTEMBER 2020 – The ASEAN Korea Centre will hold a webinar on ASEAN-Korea tourism titled “Recovering from COVID-19: Smart Tourism for ASEAN and Korea” on Tuesday, 8 September at 13:30 (KST) through YouTube livestreaming.The webinar is co-organized with the Korea Tourism Organizatio
The ASEAN Korea Centre will hold a webinar on ASEAN-Korea tourism titled “Recovering from COVID-19: Smart Tourism for ASEAN and Korea” on Tuesday, 8 September at 13:30 (KST) through YouTube livestreaming.
The webinar is co-organized with the Korea Tourism Organization and Travie, Korea’s leadi
