ASEAN is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries in Southeast Asia. It promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration. ASEAN was preceded by an organisation formed on 31 July 1961 called the Association of Southeast Asia, a group consisting of Thailand, the Philippines, and the Federation of Malaya.
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ASEAN is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries in Southeast Asia. It promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration among its members and other countries in Asia. ASEAN was preceded by an organisation formed on 31 July 1961 called the Association of Southeast Asia, a group consisting of Thailand, the Philippines, and the Federation of Malaya. On 15 December 2008, member states met in Jakarta to launch a charter, signed in November 2007, to move closer to an EU-style community. In the asean logo the ten stalks represent the ten southeast Asian countries bound together in friendship and solidarity. The circle symbolises the unity of ASEanASEAN also regularly engages other countries. in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. It maintains a global network of alliances and dialogue partners and is considered by many as a global powerhouse, the central union for cooperation in Asia- Pacific. It is involved in numerous international affairs, and hosts diplomatic missions throughout the world. In 2006, Asean was given observer status at the United Nations General Assembly. In response, the organisation awarded the status of \”dialogue partner\” to the UN. On 7 January 1984, Brunei became AseAN’s sixth member and on 28 July 1995, following the end of the Cold War, Vietnam joined as the seventh member. Cambodia was to join at the same time as Laos and Myanmar, but an internal political struggle delayed its entry.
It then joined on 30 April 1999 following the stabilization of its government. The group achieved greater cohesion in the mid-1970s following a change in the balance of power after the end. of the Vietnam War in 1975. The region’s dynamic economic growth during the 1970s strengthened the organization, enabling ASEAn to adopt a unified response to Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia in 1979. In 2003, A SEAN moved along the path of EU by agreeing to establish an Aseans community comprising three pillars namely the ASEans security community, the A SEans economic community and the A Southeastans socio-cultural community. The charter turned ASEONE into a legal entity and aimed to create a single free-trade area for the region encompassing 500 million people. The aim is to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development in the region, to promote regional peace, collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest, to provide assistance to each other in the form of training and research facilities, to collaborate for better utilization of agriculture and industry to raise the living standards of the people. A SEan community achieved while transforming into a vigorous vigorous community. President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: “ASEAN is consolidating, and transforming itself into a more vigorous community at a time when the international system is experiencing a seismic shift” He concluded: “Southeast Asia is no longer the bitterly divided war-torn region it was in the 1960s and 1970s”
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