Post 49

Post 49 ^th AMM and Related Meetings

21-26 July 2016 Vientiane, Lao PDR

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Briefing by

Hirubalan V P

DSG – APSC, ASEAN Secretariat

SIGNIFICANCE

• First Formal ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) as ASEAN Community

• Six Months into ASEAN Community Vision 2025

• Monitor Progress

ANTECEDENTS

(ASEAN Related)

Institutional

• AMM Retreat

• Senior Officials’ Meetings (SOMs) and Related Meetings

• Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN (CPR) – Enhanced Role

• External Relations Special

• ASEAN-US Sunnylands Summit

• ASEAN-Russia Sochi Summit

• Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

• Joint Working Group (JWG)/SOM on DOC/COC

ANTECEDENTS

(Regional/International)

• Terrorism/Violent Extremism

• Nuclear/Ballistic Missiles Test

• South China Sea

• Brexit

MOOD/EXPECTATIONS

• The Kunming Episode

• Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Decision (12 July 2016)

• ASEAN Unity and Centrality

Pre-AMM

Officials

• CPR

• SOM

• Executive Committee of the Southeast Asia Nuclear

Weapon-Free Zone Commission (SEANWFZ EXCOMM) Ministerial

• SEANWFZ Commission

• Interface with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)

• Special FMs Meeting

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AMM

• Four New FMs – Laos (Chair), Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines

• Plenary

 ASEAN Community Building

 ASEAN Community Vision 2025 Implementation

 Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 and Initiative for ASEAN Integration Work Plan (IAI WP) III

 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030

 Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) – 40^th Anniversary

(New Accessions – Chile, Egypt, Iran, Morocco)

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AMM

• Retreat

 Formal Partnership with ASEAN

(Switzerland – Sectoral Dialogue Partner) (Germany – Development Partner)

 Transnational Crimes/Maritime Security

 Regional Issues

 ASEAN Unity and Centrality

Side Event

• Informal Meeting with Norway

Consistent

• Strong reaffirmation of partnership

• Committed to ASEAN development

• Manifest support for Narrowing the Development Gap

• Explored ways to enhance economic relations

• ASEAN Connectivity

• Cooperation to combat Transnational Crime and Non- Traditional Security

Regional Issues

• South China Sea – peaceful settlement of disputes;

support for DOC/COC

• Korean Peninsula

Post-Ministerial Conferences

(Represented by Dialogue Partners’ Foreign Ministers)

• Forging closer cooperation

 Trade and Investment Cooperation

 Poverty Alleviation

 Narrowing the Development Gap

 Enhancing People-to-People Contact

 Connectivity

• APT Cooperation Work Plan (2013-2017)

• Commence discussion for successor work plan (post- 2017)

• Projects/Activities under East Asia Vision Group Plan II

ASEAN Plus Three (APT)

• Defining Document – EAS 10^th Anniversary Declaration

• Reaffirmed EAS as key strategic forum for the region

• Strengthening of EAS processes

• Welcomed EAS Ambassadors Meeting in Jakarta

• Reiterated ASEAN’s central role in EAS

• RegionaI issues – frank and candid discussions

 South China Sea

 Korean Peninsula

 Regional Security Architecture

East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign

Ministers’ Meeting

• Regional/International Issues

 Terrorism/Violent Extremism

 DPRK

 South China Sea

• Activities/Projects/Meetings

 23 for 2016-2017

 11 new activities

• Creating Synergy

 Avoid duplication

 EAS, ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meetings (ADMM) Plus, Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum (EAMF)

 Experts/Eminent Persons (EEPs) to study subject

ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)

DOCUMENTS

• Joint Communiqué

• ASEAN FMs Statement on Maintaining Peace, Security and Stability

• ASEAN-China Statement on DOC and COC

• ARF Statement on Terrorism

• Chairman’s Statements

Forthcoming Key Events

• 28^th and 29^th ASEAN Summits

• ASEAN Plus One Summits

 ASEAN-China 25^th Anniversary Commemorative Summit

 Australia (biennial)

 India

 Japan

 Republic of Korea

 United Nations

 United States

• 19^th ASEAN Plus Three Summit

• 11^th East Asia Summit

Outcome Documents

Please visit:

http://asean.org/asean-political-security-

community/asean-foreign-ministers-meeting-

amm/asean-foreign-ministerial-meetings/the-49th- amm-and-related-meetings/

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