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The Establishment of ASEAN

ASEAN was formed on 8th Aug 1967 by foreign minister’s of 5 countries located in Southeast Asia signed an agreement in Bangkok. The country name as follows:

•Indonesia,

•Malaysia,

•the Philippines,

•Singapore,

•Thailand,

Which are the ASEAN COUNTRIES?

Later joined the group as follows:

•Brunei – on 8 Jan 1984.

•Vietnam – on 28 Jul 1995.

•Laos – on 23 Jul 1997.

•Burma (Myanmar) – on 23 Jul 1997 &

•Cambodia – on 30 Apr 1999.

Now there are 10 countries in the ASEAN with its headquarter at jakarta

ASEAN’s Member CountriesASEAN’s Member Countries

Why was ASEAN formed?

ASEAN aim and purpose is to promote:

1.Economic growth, Social progress, Cultural Development among its member countries;

2.Protection of peace & stability in the region;

3.To provide opportunities for member countries to discuss differences peacefully;

4.To provide assistance to each other in the form of training and research facilities in the educational, professional, technical and administrative spheres;

5. To collaborate more effectively for the greater utilisation of their agriculture and industries, the expansion of their trade.

6. To promote Southeast Asian studies; and

7. To maintain close and beneficial cooperation with existing international and regional organisations with similar aims and purposes, and explore all avenues for even closer cooperation among themselves.

ASEAN SUMMIT

The organisation 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.

Formal Summit was first held in Bali, Indonesia in 1976.

By December 2008, the ASEAN Charter came into force and with it, the ASEAN Summit will be held twice in a year.

The formal summit meets for three days

1. Leaders of member states would hold an internal organization meeting.

2. Leaders of member states would hold a conference together with foreign ministers of the ASEAN Regional Forum.

3. A meeting, known as ASEAN Plus Three, is set for leaders of three Dialogue Partners (People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea)

4. A separate meeting, known as ASEAN-CER, is set for another set of leaders of two Dialogue Partners (Australia, New Zealand).

DETAILS OF THE SUMMIT

ASEAN Regional ForumASEAN Regional Forum

The first region wide Asia-Pacific multilateral forum for official consultations on peace and security issues.

The ARF met for the first time in 1994.

Membership: 27 States – The current participants in the ARF are as follows: Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, the People's Republic of China, the European Union, India, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Timor-Leste, United States and Sri Lanka Its main purpose are:

1.Confidence-building

2.Preventive diplomacy

3.Conflict resolution

Dialogue Partners

ASEAN-AUSTRALIA

ASEAN-NEW ZEALAND

ASEAN-EUROPEAN UNION

ASEAN-UNITED STATES

ASEAN-PAKISTAN

ASEAN-CHINA

ASEAN-JAPAN

ASEAN-CANADA

ASEAN-RUSSIA

ASEAN-INDIA

5th ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, Thailand on 14-15 December 1995

ASEAN PLUS THREE

Government leaders, ministers, and senior officials from the 10 members of the ASEAN and the three Northeast Asian states—China, Japan, and South Korea—that together comprise the participants in the process of consulting on an increasing range of issues.

political …….security …… transnational crime, Economic….. Energy….. agriculture and forestry, Minerals…….tourism……….health, labour……….culture and arts……. environment, science and technology……information technology, social welfare….rural development ……poverty eradication, disaster management…..youth, women, and other tracks.

ASEAN FREE TRADE AREA (AFTA)

ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) is a trade block agreement by ASEAN supporting local manufacturing in all ASEAN countries.

The AFTA agreement was signed on 28 January 1992 in Singapore.

The primary goals of AFTA seek

1.To establish free trade area in the member countries.

2.To reduce tariff and non tariff barriers of the products produced in ASEAN countries.

3. To attract more foreign direct investment to ASEAN.

With the widespread and rapid economic development AFTA will narrow the economic gaps among the ASEAN member countries through improves resources and greater employment opportunities.

AFTA will facilitate efficient utilization of scare resources and provide opportunities for the ASEAN members to further strengthen their competitive advantage.

It aimed at creating an integrated regional market and enhancing ASEAN competitiveness against the major competing economies in the world.

AFTA aims at increasing the intra regional trade.

Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT)

The primary mechanism for achieving the goals given above is the (CEPT) scheme.

Tariff rates levied on the intra regional trade be reduced to 0- 5% the end of 2010 for all ASEAN members.

All import duties would be eliminated by 2010 for the 6 original Member Countries and 2015 for the 4 Newer Member Countries of ASEAN. 

FTA with other countries/ entities

ASEAN has concluded free trade agreements with• China,

• Canada,• European union,

• United States,• Korea,• Japan,

• Australia, • Russia,

• Pakistan,• New Zealand and

• most recently India.

INDO-ASEAN FTA

1992: India became sectoral dialogue partner of ASEAN (trade, investment, tourism, science & technology)

1995: Full Dialogue Partner in the Fifth ASEAN Summit, Bangkok, December.

1996: Became a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in July.

2002: First ASEAN-India summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in November

TOWARDS INDO-ASEAN FTA

•The number of items in India’s negative list has been reduced from 1,414 to 854

• ASEAN came up with a composite negative list of 600 products

• October 2006: India prepares a negative list of 560 items

• December 2006: ASEAN submitted a 1000-plus negative list

•January 2007 – both sides agree that negative list will not exceed 5% of trade - ASEAN agrees to the negative list of India consisting of 490 items

•Final Agreement in 2008 - effective from 13th august 2009

• Sensitive list - textiles, machinery, auto components, chemicals and plastic

•Now talks on Service and Investment

Objectives of AIFTA

1. Strengthen and enhance economic, trade and investment co-operation between the Parties;

2. Progressively liberalise and promote trade in goods and services as well as create a transparent, liberal and facilitative investment regime;

3. Explore new areas and develop appropriate measures for closer economic co-operation between the Parties; and

4. Facilitate the more effective economic integration of the new ASEAN Member States and bridge the development gap among the Parties.

INDO-ASEAN TRADE DATA

SOURCES: EXPORT IMPORT DATABANK

INDO-ASEAN TRADE GROWTH ANALYSIS

SOURCES: EXPORT IMPORT DATABANK

REGION WISE COMPARISION

OF EXPORT AND IMPORT

OF INDIA

ASEAN Tourism

Single Aviation Market

Introduction of open-sky agreement by 2015

Fully liberalize air travel between its member states

Liberalization of Fifth freedom travel rights

CULTRAL ACTIVITIES

1. S.E.A. Write Award

2. ASAIHL

3. Heritage parks

4. Scholarship

5. University Networks

CriticismASEAN is too soft in its approach to promote human rights and democracy in the junta-led Myanmar.

 International observers view it as a "talk shop“.

ASEAN has begun to be less successful at restraining its members and resolving border disputes such as those between Burma and Thailand , Indonesia and Malaysia.

During the 12th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, several activist groups staged anti-globalisation and anti-Arroyo rallies.

ASEAN Vision 2020

ASEAN Vision 2020 adopted on 15 December 1997 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by the Heads of State/Government

We envision the ASEAN region to be, in full reality, a Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality.

We envision the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia functioning fully .

We envision a Southeast Asia free from nuclear weapons

A Community of Caring Societies.

Ensuring that the multilateral trading system remains fair and open, and achieving global competitiveness.

In 2003, ASEAN resolved to pursue comprehensive integration towards the establishment of an ASEAN Community by 2020.

ASEAN Community

ASEAN community comprised of “three pillars”

regional grouping has made the most progress in economic integration, aiming to create an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015.

Politicalsecurity

Sociocultural

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Deepika IB08Dev IB09Fatik IB10Anshul IB04Ashwini IB05Chetna IB07