As set out in the Declaration, the aims and purposes of ASEAN are to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development in the region, to promote regional peace, collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest, to provide assistance to each other in the form of training and research facilities, to collaborate for better utilization of agriculture and industry to raise the living standards of the people, to promote Southeast Asian studies and to maintain close, beneficial co-operation with existing international organisations with similar aims and purposes. Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, signed the ASEAN Declaration. ASEAN itself was created on 8 August 1967, when the foreign ministers of five countries: Main articles: ASEAN Declaration and ASEAN CharterĪSEAN was preceded by an organisation formed on 31 July 1961 called the Association of Southeast Asia ( ASA), a group consisting of Thailand, the Philippines, and the Federation of Malaya. It is involved in numerous international affairs, and hosts diplomatic missions throughout the world. A major partner of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, ASEAN maintains a global network of alliances and dialogue partners and is considered by many as a global powerhouse, the central union for cooperation in Asia-Pacific, and a prominent and influential organization. The ten stalks of rice in the ASEAN flag and insignia represent the ten southeast Asian countries bound together in solidarity.ĪSEAN also regularly engages other countries in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. In 2003, ASEAN moved along the path of the European Union by agreeing to establish an ASEAN community comprising three pillars: the ASEAN security community, the ASEAN economic community, and the ASEAN socio-cultural community. With some of the fastest growing economies in the world, ASEAN has broadened its objective beyond the economic and social spheres. A secondary objective was to promote regional peace and stability based on the rule of law and the principle of United Nations charter. ASEAN's primary objective was to accelerate economic growth and through that social progress and cultural development. ASEAN ( / ˈ ɑː s i ɑː n/ AH-see-ahn, / ˈ ɑː z i ɑː n/ AH-zee-ahn), officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a political and economic union of 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration between its members and other countries in Asia.

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