ASEAN

ABOUT ASEAN

Established on 8th
August 1967, 10 members
Bangkok

Aims: economic
growth, social
first 5 countries progress, cultural
then another 5 development among
its members, regional
peace and stability
 10 MEMBER STATES

Brunei Darussalam (7 Cambodia (30 April

January 1984) 1999)

Indonesia (8 August
Lao PDR (23 July 1997)
1967)

Malaysia (8 August Myanmar (23 July

1967) 1997)

Philippines (8 Singapore (8
August 1967) August 1967)
 ASEAN
• Most prominent regional grouping in Asia.
• The significance of ASEAN lies in the fact that
it encompasses the whole of South-East-Asia
with 8.8% of world population..
• ASEAN is often seen as a political
counterweight to China's dominance in the
region.
 OBJECTIVES
The ASEAN nations come together with three
main objectives in mind:
– to promote the economic, social and cultural
development of the region through cooperative
programs;
– to safeguard the political and economic stability
of the region against big power rivalry;
– and to serve as a forum for the resolution of
intra-regional differences
ASEAN COMMUNITIES

Political-Security Community
(APSC)

Economic Community (AEC)

Social-Cultural Community (ASCC)

 ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC)

Objectives
• to ensure that the peoples and Member States of ASEAN live
in peace with one another and with the world at large in a just,
democratic and harmonious environment.
Activities in this community include :
• cooperation on building norms of peace and security,
• strong relationships with external partners,
• the promotion of political development in areas such as good
governance and human rights, as well as
• specific sectoral meetings on defence, law, and transnational
crime.
 ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
Objective
• To transform ASEAN into a region with free movement of goods,
services, investment, skilled labour, and freer flow of capital. 
The AEC envisages ;
• a single market and production base making ASEAN more dynamic
and competitive with new mechanisms;
• measures to strengthen the implementation of its existing economic
initiatives;
• accelerating regional integration in the priority sectors;
• facilitating movement of business persons, skilled labour and
talents; and
• strengthening the institutional mechanisms of ASEAN
 ASEAN Social-Cultural Community (ASCC)

Objective
• “people-centered and socially responsible with a view to achieving
enduring solidarity and unity among the nations and peoples of
ASEAN by forging a common identity and building a caring and
sharing society which is inclusive and harmonious where the well-
being, livelihood, and welfare of the peoples are enhanced.”
Areas of cooperation in this community include
• culture, arts and information,
• disaster management,
• education, environment,
• health, labour, rural development and poverty eradication,
• social welfare and development,
• youth and civil service cooperation.
 ASEAN-INDIA RELATION
• India became a sectoral dialogue partner of ASEAN in
1992.
• Mutual interest led ASEAN to invite India to become
its full dialogue partner during the fifth ASEAN
Summit in Bangkok in 1995.
• India also became a member of the ASEAN Regional
Forum (ARF) in 1996.
 ASEAN-INDIA RELATION

• India and ASEAN have been holding summit-level

meetings on an annual basis since 2002.
• In August 2009, India signed a Free Trade Agreement
(FTA) with the ASEAN members in Thailand.
• Under the ASEAN-India FTA, ASEAN member
countries and India will lift import tariffs on more
than 80 per cent of traded products between 2013
and 2016.