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1. The Ministers from ten Member Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held two key inaugural meetings today. The first meeting was with the Ministers of China, Korea and Senior Vice-Minister of Japan. The second meeting was with the Minister of State, for Communications and Information Technology of India. Both meetings resulted in fruitful discussions.
2. We took note of the timeliness and urgency of convening these meetings in the wake of global ICT revolution that is rapidly transforming the lives of people and societies. In responding to the present as well as future challenges of ICT, we underlined the importance of the start of these dialogues and their potential in achieving the objectives of the ASEAN Vision 2020, the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement and the respective national development agenda.
3. We are convinced that there are many common areas of needs for cooperation that will allow us to enhance the achievement of ASEAN and East Asia, and ASEAN and India as a dynamic, resilient and cohesive partnership.
4. Among the key areas of Cooperation are: Building pervasive and secure ASEAN Information Infrastructure, promoting e-Society and Capacity Building, e-Commerce and ICT Trade Facilitation with the ultimate aim to bridge the digital divide in ASEAN. Collaborative projects proposed by ASEAN includes, Development and Adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), ASEANNet for Persons with Disability and e-learning initiatives. To enhance the cooperation, we will work towards strengthening our existing dialogue mechanisms.
5. We pledged to strengthen our bonds and partnership with China, Japan, Korea and India and bring these in line with our strategy of reinforcing ASEAN’s competitiveness through mutually-beneficial telecommunications and information technology cooperation. In this context, we are happy to note Japan’s initiative to convene the East Asia ICT Summit in July 2004 which among others, discussed ASEAN Cooperation with China, Japan and Korea.
6. Finally, we committed ourselves to sustaining the ASEAN TELMIN plus China, Japan and Korea and ASEAN TELMIN and India process so as to achieve greater synergy through broader and deeper cooperation in telecommunications and information technology. |
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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