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
JAKARTA, 18 May 2021 – As ASEAN and China celebrate the 30th anniversary of relations this year, they reaffirmed their commitment to further enhancing their strategic partnership at the 27th ASEAN-China Senior Officials’ Consultation held online today.The
BANGKOK, 29 April 2021 – Senior Officials of ASEAN and India discussed a range of cooperation to further strengthen ASEAN-India strategic partnership at the 23rd ASEAN-India Senior Officials Meeting held yesterday.The meeting exchanged views on the developments in ASEAN and India,
JAKARTA, 17 March 2021 – The Biden Administration is looking to further strengthen its Strategic Partnership with ASEAN through expanding cooperation in a number of mutually beneficial areas, including in addressing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States made this commi
JAKARTA, 5 August 2020 – ASEAN and the U.S. reaffirmed their ties and explored ways to deepen their strategic partnership at the 33rd ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue held on 5 August 2020 via video conference.Senior diplomats from ASEAN and the U.S. took note of the growing cooperation between the
JAKARTA, 16 July 2020 – At the 22nd ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (AISOM) held online yesterday, officials from both sides reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen ASEAN-India’s strategic partnership.The senior officials exchanged views on the developments in ASEAN and Indi
HANGZHOU, 19 May 2019 – ASEAN and the People’s Republic of China agreed to strengthen economic ties and discussed future direction of their strategic partnership at the 25th ASEAN-China Senior Officials’ Consultation held yesterday in Hangzhou, China.
Both sides reaffirmed the import
SINGAPORE, 14 NOVEMBER 2018
1. The 21st ASEAN-China Summit was held in Singapore on 14 November 2018. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, and attended by all Heads of State/Government of ASEAN Member States and H.E. Li Keqiang, Premier of
We, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Russian Federation, gathered in Singapore, on 14 November 2018 for the Third ASEAN-Russia Summit; Recalling our commitment under the Sochi Declaration of the ASEAN-Russian Federation
The 15th Meeting of the ASEAN-Russia Joint Cooperation Committee took place on 8 March 2017 at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. Ambassador Latsamy Keomany, Permanent Representative of Lao PDR to ASEAN and Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN Mikhail Galuzin co-chaired the meeting. It was attended by the
