Association Of Southeast Asian

Nations (ASEAN)

presented by-
Saurabh
Umesh
Raj Vardhan
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 THE ASEAN NATIONS -:

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ASEAN – Some Facts

MOTTO: 
"One Vision, One Identity, One Community"
"10 countries, 1 identity"

ANTHEM:-  "The ASEAN Way”.

Seat of Secretariat -: Jakarta.
Formation -: Bangkok Declaration - 8 August 1967

ASEAN spans over an area of 4.46 million km 2 with a population

of approximately 580 million people, 8.7% of the world population.
In 2009, its combined nominal GDP had grown to more than USD
$1.5 trillion. If ASEAN was a single country, it would rank as the
9th largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP.
Benefits of ASEAN -:
ASEAN has emphasised regional cooperation in the “three
pillars” of security, sociocultural and economic integration.
The regional grouping has made the most progress in
economic integration, aiming to create an ASEAN Economic
Community (AEC) by 2015.

FREE TRADE AREA -:

The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), a common external
preferential tariff scheme to promote the free flow of goods
within ASEAN. The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) is an
agreement by the member nations of ASEAN concerning local
manufacturing in all ASEAN countries. The AFTA agreement
was signed on 28 January 1992 in Singapore.
Comprehensive Investment Area -:

The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Area (ACIA) will

encourage the free flow of investment within ASEAN. The
main principles of the ACIA are as follows -:

 All industries are to be opened up for investment,

 National treatment is granted immediately to ASEAN
investors with few exclusions
 Elimination of investment impediments.
 Streamlining of investment process and procedures
 Enhancing transparency
 Undertaking investment facilitation measures
Trade in Services -:
 An ASEAN Framework Agreement on Trade in Services was
adopted at the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok in December 1995.
Under AFAS, ASEAN Member States enter into successive
rounds of negotiations to liberalize trade in services with the
aim of submitting increasingly higher levels of commitments.

Free Trade Agreements With Other

Countries -:
 ASEAN has concluded free trade agreements with People's
Republic of China, Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and
most recently India. The agreement with China created the
ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), which went into full
effect on January 1, 2010. In addition, ASEAN is currently
negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union
Single Aviation Market -:
The ASEAN Single Aviation Market (SAM), will introduce an
open-sky arrangement to the region by 2015. The ASEAN
SAM will be expected to
 Fully liberalize air travel between its member states, and
also freeing up tourism, trade, investment and services
flows between member states.
 Beginning 1 December 2008, restrictions on the third and
fourth freedoms of the air between capital cities of
member states for air passengers services will be removed,
(The freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation
rights granting a country's airlines the privilege to enter
and land in another country's airspace.)
 From 1 January 2009, there will be full liberalization of air
freight services in the region,
 ASEAN Summit -:

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 The organization holds meetings, known as the
ASEAN Summit, where heads of government of
each member meet to discuss and resolve regional
issues, as well as to conduct other meetings with
other countries outside of the bloc with the
intention of promoting external relations.

The ASEAN Leaders' Formal Summit was first held

in Bali, Indonesia in 1976.
The ASEAN Summit is held twice in a year.

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 Vietnam Summit -:
16th ASEAN Summit was hosted by Vietnam at Hanoi ( capital of
Vietnam) on 8th and 9th April 2010.
Theme:
Towards the ASEAN Community: From Vision to Action .
Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanisms
On April 8, 2010, The Foreign Ministers of ASEAN signed the
Protocol to the ASEAN Charter on Dispute Settlement Mechanisms.
TheProtocol aims to put in place a mechanism to help ASEAN
Member States resolve disputes concerning the interpretation or
application of the ASEAN Charter.
ASEAN Leaders’ Statement on Sustained Recovery and
Development
Leaders at ASEAN summit said in the statement that they would
focus efforts on ensuring financial stability, fostering regional
infrastructure development and connectivity, promoting
sustainable development and narrowing the development gap.
 On ASEAN connectivity-:

The leaders took note of the on-going efforts in developing

a Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity. This Master Plan on
ASEAN Connectivity is to be submitted in October 2010,
17th Summit at Indonesia.

Next ASEAN Summit-:

Next ASEAN summit will be held in October 2010 in
Indonesia. The 2011 president of ASEAN is Indonesia.

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East Asia Summit -:

ASEAN Observer
ASEAN Plus Three
Additional members
  ASEAN Plus Three (ASEAN, China, Japan, and South Korea)
 Additional members (India, Australia and New Zealand )
 Observer (Russia)

The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a pan-Asian forum held

annually by the leaders of 16 countries in East Asia and the
region, with ASEAN in a leadership position. The summit
has discussed issues including trade, energy and security
and the summit has a role in regional community building.

The members of the summit are all 10 members of ASEAN

together with China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia
and New Zealand who combined represent almost half of
the world's population. Russia has applied for membership
of the summit.
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Criticism -:
 Non-ASEAN countries have criticised ASEAN for being too
soft in its approach to promoting human rights and
democracy in the junta-led Myanmar (A group, especially
one made of military officers, ruling a country).
 Despite global outrage at the military crack-down on
peaceful protesters in Yangon (Myanmar), ASEAN has
refused to suspend Myanmar as a member and also rejects
proposals for economic sanctions. This has caused concern
as the European Union, a potential trade partner, has
refused to conduct free trade negotiations.
 International observers view it as a "talk shop", which
implies that the organization is "big on words but small on
action“.
  ASEAN has begun to be less successful at restraining its
members and resolving border disputes such as those
between Burma and Thailand and Indonesia and Malaysia.

 During the 12th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, several activist

groups staged anti-globalisation and anti-Arroyo rallies.
According to the activists, the agenda of economic
integration would negatively affect industries in the
Philippines and would cause thousands of Filipinos to lose
their jobs.

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