Its 1st January 2016 and the ASEAN Community is supposed to be have come into being on 31st December 2015. As expected no headlines mention about ASEAN Community on the 1st January 2016, even though ASEAN has reached a big milestone in the last 27th ASEAN Leaders' Summit in Kuala Lumpur. In fact I was hoping for Malaysia to at least hit the headline by welcoming the ASEAN Community, but none was forthcoming. The ASEAN Leaders should have held a special session on 31st December 2015 to commemorate this important milestone. However, it has been a very quiet day in all the 10 ASEAN Member States as far as the commemoration is concerned.
For those who are interested, and all ASEAN citizens should be interested, ASEAN Community consists of 3 different communities, the ASEAN Political-Security Community; the ASEAN Socio-cultural community and the ASEAN Economic Community. These are three pillars of further cooperation and closer integration of the 10 ASEAN Member States in the next 10 years, especially with the launching of the ASEAN Community 2025 Forging Ahead Together. For those who are interested can obtain a copy of the ASEAN Community 2025 from the ASEAN website www.asean.org.
ASEAN Community attracts attention from all over the world. In the last ASEAN Community Forum in Berlin the German and the European Union has shown great interest in the progress in the ASEAN Community. In the last ASEAN Economic Integration Forum organised by Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), the World Trade Institute (WTI) and St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, we discussed at length the progress and challenges to the further development of the ASEAN Community.
On 13 January 2016, IKMAS together with the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IDFR) Malaysia will organise the first forum of the year on the ASEAN Community 2025. Let us work together to make ASEAN Community 2025 a success by taking steps towards the implementation of the work plans and the higher level of integration in the 10 member states.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY ASEAN COMMUNITY
For those who are interested, and all ASEAN citizens should be interested, ASEAN Community consists of 3 different communities, the ASEAN Political-Security Community; the ASEAN Socio-cultural community and the ASEAN Economic Community. These are three pillars of further cooperation and closer integration of the 10 ASEAN Member States in the next 10 years, especially with the launching of the ASEAN Community 2025 Forging Ahead Together. For those who are interested can obtain a copy of the ASEAN Community 2025 from the ASEAN website www.asean.org.
ASEAN Community attracts attention from all over the world. In the last ASEAN Community Forum in Berlin the German and the European Union has shown great interest in the progress in the ASEAN Community. In the last ASEAN Economic Integration Forum organised by Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), the World Trade Institute (WTI) and St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, we discussed at length the progress and challenges to the further development of the ASEAN Community.
On 13 January 2016, IKMAS together with the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IDFR) Malaysia will organise the first forum of the year on the ASEAN Community 2025. Let us work together to make ASEAN Community 2025 a success by taking steps towards the implementation of the work plans and the higher level of integration in the 10 member states.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY ASEAN COMMUNITY
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