{"id":69926,"date":"2025-10-24T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69926"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:47:24","slug":"association-of-southeast-asian-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/association-of-southeast-asian-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>ASEAN Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister decided not to travel to Malaysia to attend the 47th ASEAN summit and will attend it virtually.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About ASEAN <\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>inter-governmental regional organisation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> formed to promote political, economic, and security cooperation among <\/span><b>Southeast Asian nations.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Established in 1967 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the signing of the <\/span><b>Bangkok Declaration,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> its founding members were Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ASEAN currently has <\/span><b>10 member countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ASEAN Community comprises <\/span><b>three pillars<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: the <\/span><b>Political-Security Community, the Economic Community and the Socio-Cultural Community.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two of its <\/span><b>core operating principles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are c<\/span><b>onsensual decision-making<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>noninterference in the internal affairs of its members.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In line with ASEAN centrality, ASEAN sees itself as a <\/span><b>platform for intergovernmental cooperation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> throughout the <\/span><b>entire Asia-Pacific.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Institutional Mechanisms of ASEAN<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>ASEAN Summit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is <\/span><b>held annually,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where member states discuss regional developments and set strategic policy directions. It is chaired by a rotating presidency.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> monitors the implementation of agreements and decisions, ensuring alignment across the member states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>ASEAN Secretariat, located in Jakarta<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, acts as the administrative body supporting and facilitating ASEAN\u2019s initiatives, coordination, and documentation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a key platform for dialogue on political and security issues <\/span><b>involving both member countries and external partners.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>India joined the ARF in 1996<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, marking its formal inclusion in ASEAN-led security dialogue mechanisms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pm-modi-jaishankar-asean-summit-malaysia\/article70192101.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is an inter-governmental regional organisation formed to promote political, economic, and security cooperation among Southeast Asian nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":69932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[599],"class_list":{"0":"post-69926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}