Transcript UNLV - Welcome to Asia Economic Forum (AEF)

ASEAN AND DIALOGUE
PARTNERS
by Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN
Ambassador Bagas Hapsoro
for the 8th ASIA ECONOMIC FORUM
Phnom Penh, 18 March 2012
Key Principles
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Outward looking
Open, transparent and inclusive
Dialogue and cooperation
External relations in the early years:
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Economic cooperation and development assistance
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Donor-recipient relationship
Current focus:
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Equal partnership, non-discrimination and mutual benefit
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Substantive dialogue and cooperation – political &security, trade,
investment, S&T, ICT, HRD, environment, transnational crime, counterterrorism and people-to-people contacts
Key Mechanism
• Plus One: China, Japan, Republic of Korea & India
• Plus Three: ASEAN & China, Japan, Republic of Korea
• EAS – ASEAN, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, India, Australia &
New Zealand
Dynamic and Outward-Looking
• ASEAN’s centrality
+ Dynamic leadership in external relations:
- ASEAN+1 (10 Dialogue Partners : Australia, Canada, China, EU,
India, Japan, RoK, New Zealand, Russia, USA)
- ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) : 27 participants (10 ASEAN
Member States, 10 Dialogue Partners, PNG, Timor-Leste, DPRK,
Mongolia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh
- ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan, RoK)
- East Asia Summit (EAS) : ASEAN, Australia, China, India, Japan,
RoK, New Zealand
- cooperation with the UN, World Bank; regional
organizations/institutions (ECO, SAARC, PIF, GCC, Mercosur, SCO,
ADB, UN-ESCAP, MRC)
Dynamic and Outward-Looking
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• Active participation of ASEAN and/or Member States in
international and inter-regional dialogue and cooperation:
+ ASEAN-UN
+ Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)
+ APEC (Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar are still waiting to join)
+ G-20 (Indonesia + ASEAN Chair country)
+ World Trade Organization
+ Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
+ Forum for East Asia – Latin American Cooperation (FEALAC)
+ Asia-Africa Summit
+ Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD)
ASEAN Centrality in the Global Landscape
Source: Emerging Asian Regionalism: a Partnership for Shared Prosperity (ADB)
ASEAN as the unifier
Southeast Asian nations under the ASEAN fold
8 August 1967: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and
Thailand established ASEAN
1984 : Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN
1995: Viet Nam joined ASEAN
1997: Laos and Myanmar joined ASEAN
1999: Cambodia joined ASEAN
Timor-Leste : wishing to join ASEAN
Papua New Guinea: is also interested; but whether it belongs to
Southeast Asia? PNG is in the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
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ASEAN as the peace-maker
• 1976 Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia
(TAC)
- Canada and Turkey acceded to the Treaty of Amity and
Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), giving a strong signal of
their commitment to cooperation with ASEAN as well as to peace
and security in the region.
- The Third Protocol amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation
in Southeast Asia (TAC) was also signed by the 27 High
Contracting Parties to the TAC.
- The Third Protocol, upon its entry into force, will enable accession
to the TAC by not only States but also regional organisations
whose members are sovereign States, such as the EU/EC.
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Ambassadors to ASEAN
• Article 46 of the ASEAN Charter provides for
accreditation of Ambassadors to ASEAN from nonASEAN Member States
• The proposed accreditation shall be conveyed to the SG
of ASEAN, who shall inform ASEAN Foreign Ministers
through the Committee of Permanent Representatives
(CPR)
• The ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM) shall
decide on such proposed accreditation
• 10 Dialogue Partners and 50 other countries have
accredited their Ambassadors to ASEAN (see list on
ASEC’s website at www.asean.org in External Relations
section
ASEAN’s centrality
• ASEAN is in the community-building mode (with
concrete supporting institutional organization, and legal
framework from the ASEAN Charter)
• ASEAN Member States are determined to succeed in
building the Community, reaching the first target of 2015
by implementing its Roadmap (consisting of three
Community Blueprints and the second Work Plan for
narrowing the development gap)
• In the meantime, ASEAN will continue to improve its
external relations and engage all of its friends and
partners near and far
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Thank You
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