1. Association of Southeast Asian Nations

2. Welcome to the ASEAN Secretariat
Asean Secretariat building inaugurated on 9 May 1981

3. The Establishment of ASEAN
Bangkok, 8 August 1967

4. ASEAN Member Countries
Lao PDR
Myanmar
Thailand
Viet Nam
Brunei Darussalam
Philippines
Malaysia
Cambodia
Indonesia
Singapore

5. ASEAN Basic Data Total Population : 497.56 million
Total GDP : US$ billion
Total trade: US$ 720 billion
Total Area : 4,495,493 sq.km

6. Goals of ASEAN
To accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region through joint endeavors; and
To promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law.

7. ASEAN VISION 2020
A concert of Southeast Asian nations, outward looking, living in peace, stability and prosperity, bonded together in partnership in dynamic development and in a community of caring societies.

8. POLITICAL OBJECTIVE: PEACE AND STABILITY

9. Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (1976)
Contains fundamentals principles on interstate relations.
Provides mechanisms for pacific settlement of disputes.

10. Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone 15 December 1995
An undertaking by ASEAN states not to develop, manufacture, acquire, possess, test or use nuclear weapons.
Negotiations for the accession of Nuclear Weapon States are underway.

11. ASEAN Regional Forum

12. ASEAN Regional Forum
PROMOTING POLITICAL AND SECURITY DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION THROUGH:
Confidence-building
Preventive diplomacy
Conflict resolution

13. ARF ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM
Cambodia
Canada
Brunei Darussalam
China
Australia
DPRK
ARF
Vietnam
European Union
United States
India
Thailand
Indonesia
ASEAN Regional Forum
(ARF)
Singapore
Japan
Russia
Laos
Rep. of Korea
Mongolia
ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM
Philippines
Malaysia
Papua New Guinea
Myanmar
New Zealand

14. ASEAN GOAL: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

15. ASEAN Free Trade Area Launched in January 1992 To eliminate tariff
barriers
among the
Southeast
Asian
countries
with a view
to integrating
the ASEAN
economies
into a single
production base
and creating
a regional
market of
500 million people.

16. Average tariff under AFTA
ASEAN Free Trade Area
Average tariff under AFTA 20 15
Percent
12.76% 10
2.39% 5
1993
2003

17. ASEAN Free Trade Area 2002 1967 Intra ASEAN trade
vis-à-vis total trade
2002
23.2%
1967
12%

18. Integrating ASEAN

20. SINGAPORE-KUNMING RAIL-LINK

21. e-ASEAN To encourage and facilitate the growth of e-commerce;
Utilization of ICT in social services and government operations; and
To narrow the digital divide within the region.

22. To promote Southeast Asia as a single tourism destination.
ASEAN Tourism
To promote Southeast Asia as a single tourism destination.

23. FINANCIAL COOPERATION ASEAN Surveillance Process
Monitoring of global, regional and national financial developments
Peer review

24. The Chiang Mai Initiative
An expanded ASEAN Swap Arrangement to help countries meet temporary liquidity problems
A network of bilateral swap arrangements among ASEAN countries, China, Japan and Republic of Korea

25. Towards an ASEAN Economic Community
From ASEAN Free Trade Area to an ASEAN single market and production base characterized by free flow of goods, services, investment, labor, and capital by 2020.

26. FUNCTIONAL COOPERATION
Human and social development
Culture and information
Science and technology
Environment
Transnational crime, including terrorism, drugs and narcotics trafficking.

27. EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Outward-looking ASEAN

28. EXTERNAL RELATIONS Dialogue Partners
Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, European Union, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United States of America

29. Inter-regional cooperation
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Inter-regional cooperation
ASEM
APEC
ASEAN + 3
EALAF

30. ASEAN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
ASEAN SUMMIT
AEM
AMM
AFMM
Others
SEOM
ASFOM
Committees
ASC
SOM
ASEAN Secretariat

31. ASEAN SECRETARIAT ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Finance and Integration
Secretary-General
of ASEAN
Deputy
Secretary-General
Deputy
Secretary-General
IAI Unit
Special Projects
Public Affairs
Administration
Finance
Personnel IT
Director
Economic
Integration
Director
Finance and Integration
Support
Director
External
Relations &
Coordination
Director
Human Development
ORS : LRS : 135

32. THANK YOU.