DMASEAN 2025

Topic

Promoting trade between ASEAN countries

About the committee

The AEC is the realization of the region’s end goal of economic integration. It envisions ASEAN as a single market and product base, a highly competitive region, with equitable economic development, and fully integrated into the global economy. The history of AEC can be traced back as far as 1992 when the ASEAN Leaders mandated the creation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA). Since then, efforts were intensified to broaden the region’s economic potentials. The adoption of ASEAN Vision 2020 by the Leaders in 1997 has further envisaged ASEAN as a highly competitive region with free flow of goods, services, investments, a freer flow of capital, equitable economic development and reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities. In 1998, the Leaders adopted the Hanoi Plan of Action (HPA). It chartered out a set of initiatives for economic integration to realize the ASEAN Vision 2020. Recognizing the need for an integrated region, the Leaders issued the Declaration of ASEAN Concord II in 2003 which set out the establishment of ASEAN Community (initially targeted by 2020 but was later accelerated to 2015). The Declaration of ASEAN Concord II comprise of three pillars including the AEC. The AEC Blueprint 2015 was adopted in 2007 as a coherent master plan guiding the establishment of the AEC in 2015. Immediately after that, a new AEC Blueprint 2025 was developed to set the strategic directions for the next phase of ASEAN’s economic integration agenda. The AEC Blueprint 2025 is envisaged to further deepen economic integration and achieve a more integrated economic community with the following characteristics:

Chair

• Asawar Aftab

Countries

Topic

Promoting social integration and understanding in ASEAN

About the committee

The AEC is the realization of the region’s end goal of economic integration. It envisions ASEAN as a single market and product base, a highly competitive region, with equitable economic development, and fully integrated into the global economy. The history of AEC can be traced back as far as 1992 when the ASEAN Leaders mandated the creation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA). Since then, efforts were intensified to broaden the region’s economic potentials. The adoption of ASEAN Vision 2020 by the Leaders in 1997 has further envisaged ASEAN as a highly competitive region with free flow of goods, services, investments, a freer flow of capital, equitable economic development and reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities. In 1998, the Leaders adopted the Hanoi Plan of Action (HPA). It chartered out a set of initiatives for economic integration to realize the ASEAN Vision 2020. Recognizing the need for an integrated region, the Leaders issued the Declaration of ASEAN Concord II in 2003 which set out the establishment of ASEAN Community (initially targeted by 2020 but was later accelerated to 2015). The Declaration of ASEAN Concord II comprise of three pillars including the AEC. The AEC Blueprint 2015 was adopted in 2007 as a coherent master plan guiding the establishment of the AEC in 2015. Immediately after that, a new AEC Blueprint 2025 was developed to set the strategic directions for the next phase of ASEAN’s economic integration agenda. The AEC Blueprint 2025 is envisaged to further deepen economic integration and achieve a more integrated economic community with the following characteristics:

Chairs

• Fatima Aleem
• Malak Hassine

Countries

Topic

Addressing terrorism in ASEAN

About the committee

To build on what has been constructed over the years in the field of political and security cooperation, the ASEAN Leaders have agreed to establish the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC). The APSC shall aim to ensure that countries in the region live at peace with one another and with the world in a just, democratic and harmonious environment. The members of the Community pledge to rely exclusively on peaceful processes in the settlement of intra-regional differences and regard their security as fundamentally linked to one another and bound by geographic location, common vision and objectives. It has the following components: political development; shaping and sharing of norms; conflict prevention; conflict resolution; post-conflict peace building; and implementing mechanisms. The APSC Blueprint envisages ASEAN to be a rules-based Community of shared values and norms; a cohesive, peaceful, stable and resilient region with shared responsibility for comprehensive security; as well as a dynamic and outward-looking region in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world. The APSC Blueprint is guided by the ASEAN Charter and the principles and purposes contained therein. It provides a roadmap and timetable to establish the APSC by 2015. It also leaves room for flexibility to continue programmes/activities beyond 2015 in order to retain its significance and have an enduring quality. The APSC Blueprint was adopted by the ASEAN Leaders at the 14th ASEAN Summit on 1 March 2009 in Cha-am/Hua Hin, Thailand.

Chairs

• Praneet Mali
• Haya Ahmed

Countries