OVERVIEW

ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTHEAST ASIAN
NATIONS
OBJECTIVES

• To accelerate economic growth, social progress and

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 ASEAN LEADERS RESOLVED THAT The ASEAN Vision 2020, adopted
AN ASEAN COMMUNITY SHALL BE by the ASEAN Leaders on the
ESTABLISHED COMPRISING THREE 30th Anniversary of ASEAN,
PILLARS, NAMELY, agreed on a shared vision of
-ASEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY, ASEAN as a concert of Southeast
Asian nations, outward looking,
-ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
living in peace, stability and
-ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL prosperity, bonded together in
COMMUNITY. partnership in dynamic
development and in a community
of caring societies.
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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
ASEAN Member Countries have adopted the following fundamental
principles in their relations with one another, as contained in the
Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC):
- mutual respect for the independence, sovereignty, equality, territorial
integrity, and national identity of all nations
- the right of every State to lead its national existence free from
external interference, subversion or coercion
- non-interference in the internal affairs of one another
- settlement of differences or disputes by peaceful manner
- renunciation of the threat or use of force
- effective cooperation among themselves
 ASEAN Security Community
- aims to ensure that countries in the region live
at peace with one another and with the world
in a just, democratic and harmonious
environment.
The members of the Community pledge to rely exclusively
on peaceful processes in the settlement of intra-regional
differences and regard their security as fundamentally
linked to one another and bound by geographic location,
common vision and objectives. I
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COMPONENTS:
1.political development;
2.shaping and sharing of norms;
3.conflict prevention
4.conflict resolution
5.post-conflict peace building
6.implementing mechanisms

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MAJOR POLITICAL AGREEMENTS
1. ASEAN Declaration, Bangkok, 8 August 1967
2. Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality Declaration, Kuala Lumpur, 27
November 1971
3. Declaration of ASEAN Concord, Bali, 24 February 1976
4. Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Bali, 24 February
1976
5. ASEAN Declaration on the South China Sea, Manila, 22 July 1992
6. Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, Bangkok, 15
December 1997
7. ASEAN Vision 2020, Kuala Lumpur, 15 December 1997
8. Declaration of ASEAN Concord II, Bali, 7 October 2003.
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 ASEAN Regional Forum
- aims to evolve in three broad stages,
namely the promotion of:
➢ confidence building,
➢ development of preventive
diplomacy and
➢ elaboration of approaches to
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ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
•The ASEAN Economic Community shall be the end-goal
of economic integration measures as outlined in the
ASEAN Vision 2020.
•Its goal is to create a stable, prosperous and highly
competitive ASEAN economic region in which there is a
free flow of goods, services, investment and a freer
flow of capital, equitable economic development and
reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities in year
2020.
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ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
•The ASEAN Economic Community shall establish ASEAN
as a single market and production base, turning the
diversity that characterizes the region into opportunities
for business complementation and making the ASEAN a
more dynamic and stronger segment of the global
supply chain.
•ASEAN’s strategy shall consist of the integration of
ASEAN and enhancing ASEAN’s economic
competitiveness
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IN MOVING TOWARDS THE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,
ASEAN HAS AGREED ON THE FOLLOWING:
1.Institute new mechanisms and measures to strengthen the
implementation of its existing economic initiatives including the
ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), ASEAN Framework Agreement
on Services (AFAS) and ASEAN Investment Area (AIA)
2.Accelerate regional integration in the following priority sectors by
2010: air travel, agro-based products, automotives, e-commerce,
electronics, fisheries, healthcare, rubber-based products, textiles
and apparels, tourism, and wood-based products
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IN MOVING TOWARDS THE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,
ASEAN HAS AGREED ON THE FOLLOWING:
3. Facilitate movement of businesspersons, skilled labor
and talents
4. Strengthen the institutional mechanisms of ASEAN,
including the improvement of the existing ASEAN Dispute
Settlement Mechanism to ensure expeditious and legally
binding resolution of any economic disputes.
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ASEAN FREE TRADE AREA (AFTA)
- aims to promote the region’s competitive
advantage as a single production unit.
- The elimination of tariff and non-tariff
barriers among Member Countries is
expected to promote greater economic
efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness.
OTHER MAJOR INTEGRATION-RELATED ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES OF ASEAN INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
1. Roadmap for Financial and Monetary Integration of ASEAN in
four areas, namely, capital market development, capital
account liberalization, liberalization of financial services and
currency cooperation.
2. trans-ASEAN transportation network consisting of major inter-
state highway and railway networks, including the Singapore
to Kunming Rail-Link, principal ports, and sea lanes for
maritime traffic, inland waterway transport, and major civil
aviation links.
OTHER MAJOR INTEGRATION-RELATED ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES OF ASEAN INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
3. Roadmap for Integration of Air Travel Sector.
4. Interoperability and interconnectivity of national
telecommunications equipment and services,
including the ASEAN Telecommunications Regulators
Council Sectoral Mutual Recognition Arrangement
(ATRC-MRA) on Conformity Assessment for
Telecommunications Equipment.
OTHER MAJOR INTEGRATION-RELATED ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES OF ASEAN INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
5. trans-ASEAN energy networks, which consist of the
ASEAN Power Grid and the Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline
Projects.
6. Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) focusing on
infrastructure, human resource development, information
and communications technology, and regional economic
integration primarily in the CLMV countries.
OTHER MAJOR INTEGRATION-RELATED ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES OF ASEAN INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
7. Visit ASEAN Campaign and the private
sector-led ASEAN Hip-Hop Pass to promote
intra-ASEAN tourism.
8. Agreement on the ASEAN Food Security
Reserve.
ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY
❑ The ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, in
consonance with the goal set by ASEAN Vision
2020, envisages a Southeast Asia bonded
together in partnership as a community of
caring societies and founded on a common
regional identity.
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ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY
❑ The Community shall foster cooperation in
social development aimed at raising the
standard of living of disadvantaged groups
and the rural population and shall seek the
active involvement of all sectors of society, in
particular women, youth, and local
communities.
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ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY
❑ ASEAN shall ensure that its work force shall be
prepared for, and benefit from, economic
integration by investing more resources for basic
and higher education, training, science and
technology development, job creation, and social
protection.

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ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY
❑ASEAN shall further intensify cooperation
in the area of public health, including in
the prevention and control of infectious
and communicable diseases.

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ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY
❑ The development and enhancement of human
resources is a key strategy for employment
generation, alleviating poverty and socio-
economic disparities, and ensuring economic
growth with equity.

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 ON GOING ACTIVITIES OF ASEAN
1. ASEAN WORK PROGRAM FOR SOCIAL 6. ASEAN University Network (AUN)
WELFARE, FAMILY, AND POPULATION promoting collaboration among
2. ASEAN WORK PROGRAM ON HIV/AIDS seventeen member universities ASEAN
3. ASEAN WORK PROGRAM ON COMMUNITY- 7. ASEAN Students Exchange Program,
Youth Cultural Forum, and the ASEAN
BASED CARE FOR THE ELDERLY Young Speakers Forum
4. ASEAN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND 8. The Annual ASEAN Culture Week,
HEALTH NETWORK ASEAN Youth Camp and ASEAN Quiz
5. ASEAN WORK PROGRAM ON PREPARING 9. ASEAN Media Exchange Program
10. Framework for Environmentally
ASEAN YOUTH FOR SUSTAINABLE Sustainable Cities (ESC) and ASEAN
EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER CHALLENGES OF Agreement on Transboundary Haze
GLOBALIZATION
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