ASEAN issues statement on development of community’s post-2025 vision
The ASEAN leaders’ statement on the development of the ASEAN community’s post-2025 vision was passed on May 10 at the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia.
The ASEAN leaders’ statement on the development of the ASEAN community’s post-2025 vision is passed on May 10 at the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. (Photo: VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – The ASEAN leaders’ statement onthe development of the ASEAN community’s post-2025 vision was passed on May 10 atthe 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia.
Accordingly, the leaders agreed to continue to consolidate the bloc's community-buildingprocess through the full implementation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025adopte💟d at the 27th ASEAN Summit held in 2015 in Kuala Lumpur.
They admitted to develop the ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision and its attendant documents,as envisioned in the Hanoi Declaration on the ASEAN Community’s Post-2025Vision, and enhance ASEAN’scollective efforts in narrowing the development gap within ASEAN and enhancingASEAN’s sustainable development agenda to realise an inclusive, participatory,and collaborative Community that is no longer divided by the development gapsamong its members. They commended the ASEAN High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Community (HLTF-ACV) for having accomplishedimportant milestones in their work, including the Recommendations onStrengthening ASEAN’s Capacity and Institutional Effectiveness and proposedCore Elements of the ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision which was adopted and notedby the leaders at the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits on 11 November 2022 in PhnomPenh. The ASEAN leaders encouraged HLTF-ACV to develop avisionary, inspirational, robust, comprehensive, inclusive and forward-looking ASEANCommunity’s Post-2025 Vision, to address current and future challenges andtrends inside and beyond the region by 2045 while looking forward to the in-principleendorsement of the Vision in 2023 and adoption of the Vision and its attendantdocuments in 2025. Ambassador Nguyen Hai Bang, Permanent Representativeof Vietnam to ASEAN, said that since 2015, ASEAN leaders haveagreed to define the ASEAN Community as a community of peace, stability,security, prosperity and resilience. The ambassador acknowledged that, at this summit, ASEANleaders reaffirmed the criteria and added new factors such as focusing onpeople, orientation towards human services, taking people as the centre andbeing the beneficiaries of the process of building and developing the ASEANCommunity./.
The 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia adopted the ASEAN Leaders’ Statement on strengthening regional capacity and institutional effectiveness on May 10.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on May 9 had bilateral meetings with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Laos Sonexay Siphandone, and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste Taur Matan Ruak on the sidelines of the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara.
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The ASEAN leaders’ statement on the development of the ASEAN community’s post-2025 vision is passed on May 10 at the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. (Photo: VNA) 
