Wht you understand by ASEAN???

ASEAN stands for Association of South East Asian Nations

*It is a political and economic organisation of 10 SE Asian nations

* Formed in 1967

* Founding members were Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and

Thailand i.e. all 10 current members were not founding members



* Current members are:
   * Indonesia
   * Malaysia
   * Philippines
   * Singapore
   * Thailand
   * Brunei
   * Cambodia
   * Laos
   * Myanmar (Burma)
   * Vietnam



* Aims:

   * Accelerating economic growth, social progress, and sociocultural evolution among its members,

   * Protection of regional stability

   * Providing a mechanism for member countries to resolve differences peacefully

* ‘The ASEAN Way’: Doctrine that the member countries will largely mind their own business when it comes to internal matters of member countries


* ASEAN Plus Three: Was created to improve existing ties with the China, Japan and South Korea.


* ASEAN Plus Six : includes ASEAN + China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and India



* If the ASEAN nations were a single country, their combined economy would rank the 7th largest in the world
* HQ : Jakarta, Indonesia
* India



   * Has and FTA with ASEAN (operational since 2010)

   * Shares border both land/marine

   * Large number of Indian origin people living in these countries


* Latest Summit-

   * Vientiane (Laos), Sep 2016

   * Manila (Philippines), April 2017. Theme "Partnering for change, engaging the world"

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