ASEAN WARN OF S.CHINA SEA TENSIONS

ASEAN STATES WARN OF S.CHINA SEA TENSIONS

Vietnam and the Philippines warned of growing insecurity in Southeast Asia at a regional summit amid concerns that china was stepping up its activity in the disputed South China Sea during the corona virus pandemic 

Beijing unilaterally declared the creation of new administrative districts on islands in the troubled waterways to which Vietnam and the Philippines also have competing claims 

ASEAN Summit, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said international institutions and international law had been seriously challenged during the global crisis

Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional intergovernmental organization

 

ASEAN comprising ten countries in Southeast Asia

ASEAN itself was created on 8 August 1967

Foreign ministers of five countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, signed the ASEAN Declaration

Later, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia joined

1981 The ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) was established

On 15 December 1995, the Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty was signed to turn Southeast Asia into a nuclear-weapon-free zone

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"

ASEAN promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration among its members and other countries in Asia

ASEAN Plus Three is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the ASEAN and the three East Asian nations of China, South Korea, and Japan

 

ASEAN Plus Six with Australia, New Zealand, and India, and stands as the linchpin of Asia Pacific's economic, political, security, socio-cultural architecture, as well as the global economy

ASEAN, together with its six major trading partners (Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea), began the first round of negotiations on 26–28 February 2013, in Bali, Indonesia on the establishment of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) 

ASEAN Vision 2020 was formalised and made comprehensive through the Bali Concord II in 2003

Three major pillars of a single ASEAN community were established: Political-Security Community (APSC), Economic Community (AEC) and Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC)

ASEAN also regularly engages other countries in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond

ASEAN is a major partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

 

ASEAN also participates in the East Asia Summit (EAS)

Several territorial disputes has affected the unity of ASEAN such as the Cambodian–Thai border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand, Cambodian–Vietnamese border dispute between Cambodia and Vietnam, the North Borneo dispute between the Philippines and Malaysia, and the South China Sea dispute which includes Vietnam, Brunei, the Philippines, Malaysia, and possibly Indonesia.